title: The history of industrial action in nursing.
abstract: The long tradition of successful campaigning and industrial action by nurses counters the profession's complacent image. Throughout the century, nurses have fought for, and gained, improved working conditions and pay in line with inflation. The threat of local pay bargaining means that nurses continue to need the protection of their unions.
mesh_terms: D003098:Collective Bargaining / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000266:history*; D013317:Strikes, Employee / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom