2022–2024 National Health Service strikes
healthcare strike
The 2022–2024 National Health Service (NHS) strikes were a series of concurrent industrial disputes in the publicly funded health services of the United Kingdom.
The disputes related to the several staff groups on the Agenda for Change pay scale, as well as those on the junior doctor and consultant contracts. Rather than a single confrontation, the industrial disputes took place between workers represented by several unions across various jurisdictions and many NHS trusts. This meant that the disputes were each resolved individually over a two year period. An early pay rise offer from the Scottish government avoided long-term industrial action in the area. The bulk of the disputes were resolved by summer 2023, though the junior doctor's strikes continued. Further strikes in Scotland were averted, and a final resolution for doctors in England took place in September 2024.
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Nurses
The disputes commenced on 6 October 2022, when the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announced their intention to ballot members for industrial action over a pay rise offer which was less than their requested 5% above inflation. This was the first time the union did so in their 106-year history, and was followed by a similar movement from Unison. On 10 November, RCN nurses and other medical personnel across the NHS voted to strike.
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