[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

The RCN is the biggest nursing-specific union by far (Unison I think is the biggest overall, but it's not nursing specific). A large number didn't vote at all of course but that's the nature of voting, you can't make any assumption about what choosing not to vote means, e.g. No government has ever gotten anywhere even close to 50% of a public vote if you include those who didn't vote at all.

But I guess you could also think of it this way; staffing levels are already on a knife edgeb(and in some places, failing massively). If 10-20% of the nursing workforce quit the job tomorrow and never went back... yes, it would cause absolute chaos in vital care services.

Well I think you can assume a certain level of ambivalence in the non-voters in a case like this i.e. they're unlikely to strongly support strike action. It's a bit more binary than general election voting.

There's always a lot of figures thrown around about how many nurses/doctors/etc are considering leaving their job to show how dire it is but I'd be interested to know how that compares to any other profession. In every workplace I've ever been it feels like half the people there would talk about leaving or wanting to leave but never would

No doubt things are in crisis though and it's a very bad situation. I don't really know what the answer is though