Make International Nurses Day a day of struggle

The seismic vote in the RCN against their leadership combined with the escalating action being taken by Junior Doctors in particular can play a role in reinvigorating action. Now more than ever health unions need to link up and coordinate action to have the largest effect including no involvement of trust management in any derogation and mass assemblies of health workers in every hospital, across unions to discuss and agree the way forward. In the recent strike wave in France a key reason for

It’s clear the 26 April strike involving civil servants and education workers will bring pressure to bear on the Stormont politicians and the NI Secretary of State. The absence of an NI Executive hasn’t stopped either the increasing bills hitting our inbox or the Tory government’s representative hosting US presidents both past and present with an immense security budget. Health and public sector workers could force a pay rise agreed by the main parties and rubber stamped by the Secretary of State but instead the political strategy is to allow the local parties to wash their hands of it and ends up another stick for the Tories to use to force the DUP back into government.