1 month ago
The Mirror
Unison says ambulance workers - who will strike again this week - were prepared to continue industrial action for several months as Health Secretary Steve Barclay refuses to discuss pay settlementsAmbulance workers willing to strike in summer if Tories drag out NHS pay disputeAmbulance workers are willing to strike into the summer if ministers continue to drag out the NHS industrial dispute, unions have warned. “The Government strategy seems to be just to sit this out until the end of the NHS Pay Review Body process. “This week we've only had one day where there's been no [NHS] union on strike. The Government is pushing unions to forget about this year’s pay and focus on the deal for 2023/24 financial year - for which the contested NHS Pay Review Body is yet to deliver a recommendation. Services answered 679,517 calls last month, or 21,920 per day, both down a third (33%) on December 2022, NHS England said.
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