Strike action by nurses in one of the largest nursing unions will end after a ballot of its members in England failed to achieve a mandate.
A ballot of nurses for strikes has failed to reach the legal threshold to achieve a mandate for further industrial action, the Royal College of Nursing announced. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said it will continue to put pressure on the government to deliver fair pay for nursing in the NHS in England after turnout in a statutory strike ballot did not surpass the 50 per cent legal threshold for action.
In the ballot, more than 100,000 RCN members voted in favour of strike action – around 84 per cent of the total number of people who voted. The RCN said approximately 140,000 ballot papers needed to be returned in the post to meet the threshold and only 122,000 were received by the closing date of Friday June 23.
