Pat Cullen originally joined the world’s biggest nursing union because it never went on strike but has become the first head of the Royal College of Nursing to lead a walk-out in its 106-year history.
“When I joined the Royal College of Nursing 41 years ago, I joined because it was a non-striking union,” she told the Guardian on the day that the union’s long-running industrial action formally came to an end on 27 June.
