"I'm here to demand for a fair pay for us all so I can provide for my son and give him the childhood he deserves".
Those were the words spoken by nurse Ross Sheridan on the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) picket line outside Alder Hey Children's Hospital this morning. Around 150 nurses gathered in the shadow of the children's hospital in Knotty Ash in the ongoing dispute over pay and patient safety.
Today marked the first time in the RCN's history that such strike action had been held after the union's calls to meet the government have fallen on deaf ears. Ross, who has worked in the NHS for 10 years and at Alder Hey for one, told the ECHO : "We hear stories of nurses having to use foodbanks to feed their kids.
