Ambulance workers to take further industrial action in January and nurses union also expected to keep up the pressure on ministers
is facing months of disruption early next year as health unions ramp up their campaign of strikes in protest against the government’s “pitiful” pay award and refusal to countenance improving it.Unison
The RCN is widely expected to announce two more days of strikes to follow the ones it held on 15 and 20 December, and that the strikes will affect more hospitals. “Strikes are in no one’s best interest, least of all patients, and I urge unions to reconsider further strike action before walkouts cause deeper impact to patients.”
Strikes in the new year are likely to involve even more groups of staff than those who have already taken part in the three days of action so far involving nurses and ambulance workers. Physiotherapists in England and Wales and midwives in Wales are due to announce the dates on which they will be staging action.
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