Professional accountability and industrial action: contradictory or compatible?
The decision of the RCN to jettison its rule forbidding industrial action has generated a great deal of debate, much of which is fairly ill-informed. This article examines the industrial action issue against the background of the UKCC's Code of Professional Conduct, explores the arguments for and against and draws some conclusions.
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