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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Rebecca Black

Ambulance workers vote for industrial action over proposed policy ‘bandage’

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Some ambulance workers and paramedics have voted to take strike action over what they have termed a “bandage policy” to cover a “staffing crisis”.

Unite the union, which represents more than 400 paramedics and ambulance workers employed by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), said their members voted “decisively” for industrial action in a recent consultative ballot.

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