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UK nurses stage nationwide strike over cost of living, work conditions

UK nurses are staging the first strikes in their union's 106-year history after the government rejected their pay demands. © Niklas HALLE'N / AFP

Nurses in the United Kingdom are staging an unprecedented one-day strike as a "last resort" in their fight for better wages and working conditions.

Up to 100,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are stopping work from 8am to 8pm this Thursday, after rejecting a government pay offer.

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