Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to refuse to work from 8am until 8pm in first of two planned walkouts over pay dispute
On the picket line outside St Thomas’ Hospital in Westminster, Linda Tovey, a critical care nurse, said: “It’s increasingly difficult to come to work and go home and think ‘Actually I don’t think I can turn the heating on’.
“My wages aren’t bad for a nurse but I still have to think about what I’m doing with my money every month and that is not the position I imagined myself being in.
“People do a huge amount of extra work, in terms of studying and all that kind of stuff, and you don’t get the recognition in terms of wages.