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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Ambrose

REVEALED: Nurses union could accept 10 pay rise | Vintage Vibes

Striking RCN members in Liverpool outside Alder Hey hospital on 15 December.
Striking RCN members in Liverpool outside Alder Hey hospital on 15 December. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

The Royal College of Nursing could be willing to accept a 10% pay rise, with the union’s leader calling on the government to meet it “halfway”.

Pat Cullen, the union’s general secretary, said the RCN’s demand for a 19% rise – branded “unaffordable” by the government – is just a “starting point”.

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