Responding to reports in the FT on public sector pay awards next week, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:
“Millions of optimistic workers will be hoping these crushing reports are entirely inaccurate. Their work and current personal hardship warrants better from government.
“Nursing staff would not find this remotely acceptable. Years of pay cuts from ministers should not be capped off with yet another real-terms fall in salaries. There are tens of thousands of vacant nurse jobs and this treatment pushes more out of the profession.
“Our members in Scotland have an offer of this level on the table and we have come out against it – asking members to reject it and consider industrial action if ministers do not move.
“Ministers in Westminster still have the opportunity to see the writing on the wall and do the right thing by nursing.”
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