{"id":527659,"date":"2022-10-07T09:36:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T04:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=527659"},"modified":"2022-10-07T10:06:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T04:36:32","slug":"uk-nurses-union-to-go-on-strikes-as-cost-of-living-energy-crisis-worsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-nurses-union-to-go-on-strikes-as-cost-of-living-energy-crisis-worsen\/","title":{"rendered":"UK nurses&#8217; union to go on strikes as cost of living, energy crisis worsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s biggest nurses&#8217; union asked its 300,000 members Thursday whether they want to go on strike in a dispute over pay, and the UK&#8217;s electricity system operator warned of potential winter blackouts, in the latest evidence of the UK&#8217;s worsening energy and cost-of-living squeeze.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Royal College of Nursing are voting through Nov. 2 on whether to stage the biggest strike in the organisation&#8217;s 106-year history.<\/p>\n<p>General Secretary Pat Cullen said nurses are struggling to provide safe care for their patients because of staff shortages.<\/p>\n<p>The union is seeking a pay raise of 5% above the rate of inflation, which is currently at a 40-year high of almost 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s biggest nurses&#8217; union asked its 300,000 members Thursday whether they want to go on strike in a dispute over pay, and the UK&#8217;s electricity system operator warned of potential winter blackouts, in the latest evidence of the UK&#8217;s worsening energy and cost-of-living squeeze. Members of the Royal College of Nursing are voting through Nov. 2 on whether to stage the biggest strike in the organisation&#8217;s 106-year history. General Secretary Pat Cullen said nurses are struggling to provide safe care for their patients because of staff shortages. The union is seeking a pay raise of 5% above the rate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}