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Watch: Next nurses strike will be twice as big if no agreement reached, union warns

Double the number of nurses will be asked to strike in early February in a bid to increase pressure on the Government, union leaders have warned. The Royal College of Nursing has said that if progress is not made in negotiations by the end of January, the next set of…

Evening Standard

If Rishi Sunak doesn’t drop the macho act, we’re in for a spring of continuing misery

The wave of public sector strikes will only get worse until the government realises that compromise is not a dirty word

The Guardian - UK

Next NHS England nurses’ strike in will be twice as big if no agreement reached, union warns

It follows a vow by ministers to push for a law forcing unions to provide statutory minimum levels of service on strike days

Wales Online

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Nurse strikes announced for next month as union warns they could be twice as big

The next strike is likely to be on February 6, The Royal College of Nursing said

Manchester Evening News

Nursing union warns of more strikes next month with twice as many walking out

Double number of nurses will be asked to join industrial action to ramp up pressure on ministers, union chiefs warn

The Independent UK

Nurses say Welsh Government one-off payment 'doesn't cut it' in negotiations

Nicky Hughes of Royal College of Nursing for Wales said the Welsh Government couldn't even say how much it could offer - despite media reports it was going to offer nurses a one-off £1,000

Wales Online

GP numbers drop in Rishi Sunak's back yard as PM faces private healthcare questions

The Conservative leader is expected to come under fresh pressure over whether he uses a £250-a-half-hour doctor when he faces MPs at Prime Minister's Questions

Daily Mirror

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What's on the table to end NHS strike as nurses could get cash - or backdated pay

One minute you'll see nurses maybe getting a cash payment - the next minute the Tories are cracking down on the right to strike. It seems both could be true, but one might be more true than the other...

Daily Mirror

Grant Shapps unveils anti-strike law today and says trains don't need ticket collectors

Business Secretary Grant Shapps will publish his Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill today to combat what he called 'forever strikes' - as he launched a new war of words on rail workers

Daily Mirror

Watch: Nicola Sturgeon says it’s a ‘priority’ to avoid NHS strikes

Efforts to prevent strikes in Scotland’s NHS are ongoing but will be “very, very hard”, Nicola Sturgeon has said. The First Minister reiterated that there is no more money available this year for an enhanced pay offer. Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said he had been in talks with union leaders,…

Evening Standard

The Standard View: Welcome change of tone over NHS pay

A chink of optimism is how the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing described the effect of the Prime Minister’s overtures to NHS staff this weekend. And indeed, the shift in tone from the Government’s previous rhetoric about strike bans is welcome. Today the Health Secretary Steve Barclay…

Evening Standard

The Thatcherites hounding Sunak over strikes forget one thing: she picked her battles

MPs want the prime minister to win the health and rail disputes. But his options are limited, says Katy Balls, political editor of the Spectator

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak ‘considers one-off payment for NHS staff to end strikes’

PM declines to rule out one-off hardship payment, as health secretary meets union bosses

The Independent UK

Nursing union has ‘chink of optimism’ over Sunak’s ‘little pay shift’

Royal College of Nursing general secretary Pat Cullen will be among the union leaders meeting Steve Barclay for talks on Monday.

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Rishi Sunak refuses to accept NHS in crisis and won’t say if he uses private GP

PM says he wants ‘two-way conversation’ with unions on next year’s pay process

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak refuses 3 times to say if he uses private healthcare in toe-curling interview

The millionaire Prime Minister claimed it was not 'relevant' and told people to stop 'bandying around' claims 300 are dying a week - as a nurse goes home and cries every night

Evening Standard

BMA chairman expects junior doctors to vote for strike next week

Union hopes members will give ‘positive’ response to proposal of three-day strike

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak refuses to rule out NHS staff getting sacked in his strike crackdown

PM Rishi Sunak swerved questions on what his 'minimum service levels' for striking staff will mean in the health service - including if workers could be sacked

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Nurses’ union suggests Government meet it halfway on 19% pay rise demand

The union could be willing to accept a pay rise of about 10%.

Daily Mirror

Nurses' union could accept pay rise of 10% - about half their original demand

The Royal College for Nursing could be willing to accept a 10% rise in their pay, having previously asked for 19%, after union leader Pat Cullen asked the government to meet them "halfway"

Wales Online

Nurses’ union urges Government meet it halfway on 19% pay rise demand

Pat Cullen, general secretary of the Royal College for Nursing (RCN) said the 19% rise demand is a "starting point"

The Guardian - UK

Nurses’ union ‘could accept 10% pay rise’

RCN leader Pat Cullen says 19% demand is just a ‘starting point’ and calls on government to meet it ‘halfway’

Evening Standard

Nursing union ‘could accept 10% pay deal’ to prevent further strikes

General Secretary Pat Cullen says she could ‘meet Government half way’

The Guardian - UK

Tory plans for anti-strike law covering NHS and teachers ‘wrong and illegal’, says TUC – as it happened

The proposed legislation aims to enforce ‘minimum service levels’ in six key public services

The Independent UK

Health unions angry at prospect of capping NHS pay rises at 2%

Unions said to believe Health Secretary Steve Barclay wants to restrict next year’s award for NHS staff to 2 per cent

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