More than 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike across nine trusts in England and Wales, the GMB union has announced.
The GMB said workers across the ambulance services and some NHS trusts have voted to strike over the Government's 4% pay award, which it described as another "massive real-terms pay cut".Rachel Harrison, GMB national secretary, said: "Ambulance workers - like other NHS workers - are on their knees.
Steve Barclay, Health Secretary condemned the action, which comes ahead of "a challenging winter", and claimed union pay demands are "not affordable". "Our economic circumstances mean unions' demands are not affordable — each additional 1 per cent pay rise for all staff on the Agenda for Change contract would cost around £700million a year."
Armed Forces personnel could again drive ambulances and stand in for frontline hospital workers during the NHS strikes, it was claimed this week.
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