NURSES’ PAY
Offer Of Big Rise Expected
Oi.2J>.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, May 10. A big pay rise for Britain’s 200,000 nurses appears to be on the way. according to the “Daily Mail.”
The newspaper said Cabinet had decided the dispute, still deadlocked, must be settled quickly. A substantial offer would be made, far beyond toe 6d in the £ Which the nurses had rejected, it said.
The “Daily Mail” said ministers had been impressed by public sympathy for the nurses’ cause and feared that more delay might “deal a death blow” to recruiting. But they were insisting that the amount of the rise must he settled by arbitration, which was turned down on Tuesday by a meeting of the staff side of the Nurses’ and Midwives’ Whitley Council. The Minister of Health (Mr Powell) believed the nurses would agree to arbitration if they could be convinced of the Government’s good faith, said the “Daily Mail”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29820, 12 May 1962, Page 14
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