FURIOUS nurses were urging union bosses to throw out a no-strike policy to clear the decks for their first ever industrial action.
The vote to change the rules came at a meeting of Royal College of Nursing members who worked at Blackburn Royal Infirmary.
They were incensed at the Government's plans to scrap special unsocial hours payments, and were to press their Blackburn branch to spearhead the move at the RCN conference.
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