The Royal College of Midwives has unanimously decided to ballot its 37,000 members on whether to take industrial action over the government's below-inflation 2.5 per cent pay award. The call was made at an RCM conference in Brighton yesterday.

The Royal College of Midwives has unanimously decided to ballot its 37,000 members on whether to take industrial action over the government's below-inflation 2.5 per cent pay award. The call was made at an RCM conference in Brighton yesterday.