The walkout comes as strikes cripple Britain's rail network and postal service, airports brace for disruption and junior doctors, midwives and teachers prepare to ballot, threatening to further jam up an economy that is likely already in recession.
Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleBritish nurses will go on strike this week, hitting already stretched hospitals and cranking up pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to quell the biggest wave of industrial action to hit the country in decades.
"There's the potential for them to stretch out and [for striking workers to] dig themselves in and then that could really be something that we haven't seen for quite a long time," she said. "[For nurses] the job is getting harder and harder all of the time for a salary that is worth less and less," Patricia Marquis, the director of the RCN in England, said.
But as strikes lead to non-urgent surgeries being cancelled and longer ambulance waiting times, public anger at the state of the country could force the government to give ground. However days lost will be far fewer than in the 1970s and 1980s, when almost half of all workers were unionised. Around a quarter are members today.
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