RCN's patcullen9 sends a message to the Prime Minister amid strike action: 'Come out of your warm offices, put on a warm coat and stand on a picket line.'
Nurses represented by the Royal College of Nursing took to picket lines on Thursday for the first of two twelve-hour strikes.from the protests.
There are "nurses working five days a week and getting paid for four and that's a fact" she explained. "You'll go back with different energy, you'll go back with different determination and different courage. It'll be about doing the right thing, it won't be about balancing the books. It will be that you really care about the value and treatment of our patients and our patients deserve that."
"The government can step outside the pay review body recommendations but they choose not to do this, they choose not to do the decent thing for nursing and when they turn their back on nursing they turn their back on patients.""If you came down to this picket line today and felt this energy of these brilliant, brilliant nurses - it will end when they do the right thing for these people.
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