Legal Setback for Nurses in Pay Dispute
Taking nurses to court is not a good look despite the legal victory.
The decision by the High Court today was entirely foreseeable.
When the High Court judge ordered the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to pay costs, he noted that the union had demonstrated “a high degree of unreasonableness” and that the outcome was “inevitable”. That might be the case in the legal arena but it will bolster the political case of unions who…