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Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Cindy E and I'm joined by James Filsseve and Katie Bulls.

So today the Nurses Union have announced that they will go ahead with strikes this winter

and have even higher demands for wage increases.

James, tell us what's happening.

So what the Royal College nurses want is they want 5% above inflation.

And obviously with inflation going up, that means that paid amount is going up.

I think these strikes are the most, are kind of complicated for the government because

inflation looks like it is going to be elevated for quite some time.

You know the OBR are talking about I think 7.4% next year.

There are going to be big demands from the public sector for pay rises that

compensate them for that.

The problem is that departmental budgets are set on the assumption that pay rises would be much

lower than that, kind of low-ish single digits because inflation was much lower at the time.

And so I mean it's going to remind you of how difficult inflation is.

I mean it's also worth noting that the NHS was one of the few

public services that in the autumn statement were given more money in the NHS and education

to try and compensate for inflation.

And I wonder whether some of that might go towards dealing with the fact that you know

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