The High Court in London ruled on Thursday that a 48-hour stoppage by the UK’s largest nursing union was unlawful, cutting short the most extensive walkout yet over pay.
The decision will roughly halve the length of next week’s proposed two-day walkout, the first to affect NHS emergency and critical care, and came as four new rail strikes were called for May and June and unions warned of the stoppages lasting all year.
Lawyers for UK health secretary Steve Barclay persuaded the High Court that the second day of next week’s strike by members of the Royal College of Nursing fell outside the six-month window permitted for industrial action following a ballot.
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