Nurses to Strike Over May Bank Holiday After Union Members Rejected Pay Offer

Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) at the Florence Nightingale statue on the picket line as nurses take industrial action over pay near the Florence Nightingale Community Hospital in Derby on Jan. 18, 2023. Jacob King/PA Media

Nurses in England are set to strike again for 48 hours over the May bank holiday as members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) voted to reject the government’s new pay offer on Friday.

It comes as around 47,000 junior doctors finished their 96-hour strike in a separate dispute over pay at 7 a.m. on Saturday.