Staff Report
LONDON: British nurses have gone on strike for the second time in a week for a pay rise, forcing hospitals to cancel operations.
According to the British media, the second strike of nursing staff in the UK for a salary increase has canceled hospital operations. More than 100,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing are demanding a salary increase. However, the British government has rejected the demand for a 5 percent pay rise, with nurses saying, “We are overworked and underpaid. We need more money and more staff.”
Inflation has made it difficult to meet daily expenses: British nurses
Members of the Royal College of Nursing in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland staged the latest one-day walkout on Tuesday, following the first walkout in the trade union’s 106-year history last Thursday. Nurses said that inflation has made it difficult to meet daily expenses. According to the Nurses Union, there are 47,000 vacancies for nursing positions in the NHS. Due to a lack of staff, proper patient care is impossible. Meanwhile, the head of the Royal College of Nursing has said that if the dispute is not resolved, there may be a long strike next month.
It should be noted that the striking nurses are just some of the many public and private sector workers in the UK who have been forced to strike and protest over pay and working conditions as they face decades of inflation. There is a crisis of non-fulfillment of expenses.
