{"id":116490,"date":"2022-11-10T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T13:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116490"},"modified":"2022-11-10T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:14:24","slug":"itv-nhs-nurses-union-announce-first-ever-uk-wide-strike-in-its-106-year-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116490","title":{"rendered":"(ITV) NHS nurses union announce first ever UK-wide strike in its 106 year history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHS nurses are to strike over pay after members of the union representing close to half a million nurses across the UK were balloted.<\/p>\n<p>More than 300,000 members were urged by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to vote for strike action in the union\u2019s biggest strike ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The walkout is the first UK-wide strike action in the RCN&#8217;s 106-year history.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial action is expected to be held before the end of the year at some of the country\u2019s biggest hospitals, including Guy\u2019s and St Thomas\u2019 opposite Parliament, the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, University Hospital Wales and Belfast\u2019s Royal Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the ballot come amid a growing threat of strikes across the health service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2022-11-09\/nhs-nurses-union-announce-first-ever-uk-wide-strike\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The walkout is the first UK-wide strike action in the Royal College of Nursing&#39;s 106-year history.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hliLjyVsGm\">https:\/\/t.co\/hliLjyVsGm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ITV News West Country (@itvwestcountry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvwestcountry\/status\/1590361675894788096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS nurses are to strike over pay after members of the union representing close to half a million nurses across the UK were balloted. More than 300,000 members were urged by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to vote for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116490\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,104,597],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116493,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116490\/revisions\/116493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}