BREAKING: NHS workers in Unite reject government's 5% pay offer
NHS workers from Unite in England have rejected the latest government pay offer, theUnite, which has more than 100,000 members consisting mainly of ambulance crews and junior health staff, have followed in the lead of the Royal College of Nursing by rejecting a 5% pay rise amid double-digit inflation.This means that a new wave of strikes involving 4,000 workers next week will go ahead.’s Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and the Yorkshire Ambulance Service who will take job action on May 1.
Striking ambulance workers say the NHS is experiencing a crisis causing response time delays and winding queues outside A&E ‘It is quite frankly a joke that NHS workers are being forced to fight for a decent pay rise after years of pay freezes and all their sacrifices during the pandemic. ‘Unite’s members will now return to the picket line to continue their fight. Rishi Sunak now needs to take over this mess, roll his sleeves up and sort it.Health unions have been split over the government’s pay package of a one-off payment for 2022/23 and a 5% pay rise for 2023/24.
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