British Government Mulls Banning Strikes by Health Care Workers

British Government Mulls Banning Strikes by Health Care Workers
In this file image, an ambulance passes demonstrators protesting during a strike by junior doctors outside the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital on April 26, 2016. Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images
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Nurses working for the British National Health Service (NHS) could have their striking rights restricted as the government attempts to clamp down on the current wave of industrial action disrupting the UK.

On Wednesday during Prime Minister’s Questions, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised “tough” measures to limit strike action, saying the government would not be “intimidated by anti-strike union attacks.”