Striking nurses should see the offer of a one-off payment as an 'opportunity', former health secretary Alan Johnson has said
Alan Johnson has urged the government to drop the "crazy idea" that nurses will accept a 3% pay increase and said a one-off payment presents an "opportunity" to solve the pay dispute.
Nurses walked out for the first time in 105 years in December, amid a pay dispute. Nursing union leaders came into negotiations asking for a 19% pay rise, arguing that their members' salaries had been eroded by inflation, although demands have reportedly come down since then. "This is a 7% pay cut in effect for nurses. It was never going to work. They're going to set that to one side."He continued: "If I was sitting on the union side, I'd see that as an opportunity. What they would want is a lump sum on top of a percentage pay increase for this year.
He told Andrew: "There's got to be a long-term plan, agreed across the political parties. So, it's not something that is there for two years and then changes with a change of government for adult social care.
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