seven months of disruption for the public before they agreed to get into a room, so the hope is that the lesson can be working with trade unions can deliver acceptable results to trade union members but also ones that work for the majority of the workforce and the government. let s move forwards and hope the next pay round is not as mired in difficulty. ijust i just heard from ijust heard from somewhere on a picket line in kent from the union unite, and we also heard that the rcn might be re balloting their members. do you have a message for the other nhs staff workers? i think it s important that all trade unions, we are all part of collective structures as well as individual trade unions, and that on our part, we need to acknowledge that it our part, we need to acknowledge thatitis our part, we need to acknowledge that it is not a unanimous position. i do struggle to remember a time when we have had unanimous positions on the staff side. it is very, very rare that you get s
Plan to cricket, the ecb has revealed its plan to make the game the most inclusive plan to make the game the most inclusive in plan to make the game the most inclusive in the country. Staff strike at more than a0 universities across the country, in a long Running Dispute about pay. And our Shopping Habits have changed for good because of The Cost Of Living crisis, according to one of the countrys biggest supermarkets. And coming up on bbc news eddiejones says hes still the right man for the australia job despite his sides record defeat to wales at the rugby world cup. Hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. The serial killer lucy letby is to face a retrial on one charge that she attempted to murder a baby girl. The former neo natal nurse was given a whole life sentence last month for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another six at the countess of chester hospital. Letby has launched an appeal against her convictions. Our north of england correspondent danny savage is at
wider public health service, why isn t the government meeting what the bma is asking for? you isn t the government meeting what the bma is asking for? the bma is asking for? you would have to ask the bma is asking for? you would have to ask the the bma is asking for? you would have to ask the government - the bma is asking for? you would l have to ask the government there, which i am not. it is a cross party select committee. we had the new secretary of state before us just before christmas for the first evidence session. if i was in her shoes and still a health minister, i would say this is not the place to hold these negotiations, or a physical picket line on a wednesday morning. the government cannot hold these negotiations with a gun to his head on a strike day. as she said, let s colour of the strikes, we can have a conversation. we can talk about the 9% already on the table. the pay round for this year is already going ahead. we can talk about other important things, like th
needs to be looked at again if this stalemate is going to be unblocked and they have suggested that the independent pay review body report from the summer of this year should be reopened and the government should hand it a fresh mandate to look at the question again. there is no sign of that the government is ready to do that, even labour today on a wes streeting, the shadow health secretary said he didn t think that was a good idea and that these questions should be dealt with in the next pay round, spring summer of next year. without a discussion on pay, two sides remain deadlocked. weight given there has been a resolution in scotland, does that put any pressure on the royal couege that put any pressure on the royal college of nursing to move its position in college of nursing to move its ositio ., . ., , ., position in england, wales and northern ireland? position in england, wales and northern ireland? yes, - position in england, wales and - northern ireland? yes, potentially,