Thousands of health care staff were excluded from a recently announced public sector pay rise, including junior doctors and nurses.
Unite national officer for health, Jackie Williams, said: ‘Nursing staff and other allied health professionals have reacted with anger to being overlooked when pay rises were given to many in the public sector last month and the government not hearing the health trade unions’ call to bring their pay rise forward from April 2021.
More than 500 NHS and social workers have died of coronavirus during the pandemic. Care workers and hospital cleaners and porters were also excluded from the pay rise. Last Wednesday, hundreds of frontline workers marched to Downing Street carrying banners that said ‘Clapping won’t pay my bills’ and ‘We helped you survive, now help us survive’.
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