Nurses have voted "overwhelmingly" against the latest pay offer made by the Welsh Government. In an announcement made on Tuesday representatives from the Royal College of Nurses said their members voted "overwhelmingly to reject" the additional NHS pay offer for 2022-23.
RCN Wales, which represents the vast majority of nurses in Wales, has formally requested that negotiations with health minister Eluned Morgan resume urgently. They said if the minister does not respond in five working days the RCN Wales board has agreed that they will resume planning for further strike action and will announce more strike days.
The union called off their planned strikes for February after the Welsh Government made them a new pay offer. The offer is a 1.5% increase that will go into workers wages and be repeated next year as well as a one-off payment of 1% of a worker's salary. You can read the full details of the 7% pay rise offer made to NHS workers in Wales here. Union members voted in a ballot which closed on Monday.
