Nurses will start voting next month on whether to strike over pay in what is being described as a “defining moment” for the profession. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said it will be recommending hundreds of thousands of its members support industrial action in a ballot that opens in mid-September.
The postal ballot will ask RCN members working for the NHS in England and Wales on Agenda for Change contracts if they will take strike action which involves a complete withdrawal of labour. It will open on Thursday September 15 for four weeks.
If its members support strike action, it will be the first ever strike by RCN members in England or Wales. The college went on strike for the first time in its history in Northern Ireland in 2019.
