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🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:09.9 | I'm aware that some of you right now will be affected by today's rail strikes, |
0:14.0 | as snow and ice continue to add problems to travelling around the country. |
0:18.2 | Today's strike is the latest by the members of the RMT Rail Worker's Union, |
0:22.6 | and at the beginning fresh strike action, the government, |
0:26.2 | is banking on the public's sympathy running out on this particular front, |
0:30.3 | especially if people cannot travel to be with family at Christmas. |
0:34.2 | Where the government is reported to be less confident, |
0:36.6 | or certainly certain members of the cabinet of public sympathy diminishing, |
0:40.7 | is over a different strike, a historic strike, |
0:44.4 | of a predominantly female workforce still set to happen nationally on Thursday. |
0:50.6 | I'm talking about nurses, |
0:52.2 | with the first ever national strike action in the Royal College of Nursing's |
0:55.7 | 106-year history, it's still on. |
0:59.2 | After talks between the Nursing Union and the government collapse last night, |
1:03.5 | after it was reported that the health secretary would not engage about wages. |
1:08.4 | But that's the key ask. |
1:10.0 | The unprecedented strike action comes as the RCN is calling for nurses, |
1:14.5 | nearly 90% of which are women, |
1:16.8 | to be given a pay rise of 5% above inflation. |
1:21.0 | Despite our best efforts this morning, |
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