Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHSRCN to clarify its position on strike
Council members discussed the proposals last week following a resolution at last year’s congress calling for the matter to be clarified.
The RCN’s Rule 12, which says that nurses should not act ‘in any way which is detrimental to the well-being or interests of their patients or clients’, has been interpreted as forbidding members to going on strike.
But, according to the minutes of last week’s meeting, this is not the case and the council can already authorise strike action.
As a result, the RCN’s membership, representation and diversity committee has opted not to change the rule. Instead the council will agree a position statement which will provide guidance to members.
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