If you currently do a lot of work through a nurse agency or if you are seeking a job through a reputable nursing recruitment agency then you may be interested to know that Unison are now actually opening a strike ballot over pay for carers and those who are seeking care jobs. Nurses have to make sure that they are using this as an opportunity so that they can fight for change and ultimately force the government to take action on the vote. The organisation believe that now is the chance for them to have a voice and for them to do something that they genuinely feel is positive.

She described this as being a big crunch point for anyone who works in the nursing profession. Sara Gorton has stressed that now is in fact the time for nurses to have their own say as they need to try and drive positive change as much as possible. Of course, more had to be done to try and persuade the government to take action but at the end of the day, it looks like people had to resort to striking so they could get their point heard. Right now, there are 400,000 NHS staff who are all across the UK and they are going to be balloted by Unison in the upcoming weeks. There are other unions who are now taking action as well. You have the RCN, which is the Royal College of Nursing and you also have the RCM as well, or the Royal College of Midwives. They have tried to take action on things such as the pay that they are earning for the hours that they are putting in. Only time will tell if there is any positive outcome from this, but so far, things are looking up.