title: Nurses need the right to strike to protect patients.
abstract: Four of your readers panellists were asked if the RCN should be affiliated to the Trades Union Congress (reflections April 4). One of them said the RCN needs to modernise and join the wider trade union movement, but 'should keep the "no strike" policy that has always served it so well'.
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Harrison