Irish nurses to strike

Irish Political Prisoners and Post Hunger- Strike Resistance to Criminalisation

Political prisoners in the North of Ireland have a well-documented capacity to influence events inside and outside of prison. From the widespread opposition to internment (1971) to the hunger-strikes of 1980-81 and the signing of the Good Friday Agreement [1] , political prisoners have remained central to broader political and social developments in society [2] . This paper contextualises the B...

Strike a woman, you strike a rock: a tribute to (two) nurses.

South Africa recently lost a valiant woman, who was a nurse. The above quotations, attributed to Florence Nightingale, the founder of the nursing profession, might equally well have been uttered by Ma Albertina Sisulu. Reading the histories of the two women, 3,4 one born in 1820, the other a century later in 1918, one finds several intriguing parallels. Each made up her mind not to marry, decid...

Nurses to 'go extra mile' during junior doctors strike.

Nurses have pledged to pull together for patients as the NHS braces itself for another series of strikes by junior doctors.

Strike threat by nurses told to reapply for jobs.

Forty band seven nurses at an NHS trust face having to apply for their own jobs after ten posts were cut following a skill-mix review.

To strike or not to strike.