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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

‘Exactly what a union should be doing’: doctors in Manchester defend strike action

four young female doctors of differing ethnicities hold signs and their arms in the air: some printed orange signs read 'pay restoration for doctor' and one is handwritten with 'overworked, underpaid, undervalued'.
BMA members on the picket line at Manchester Royal Infirmary say they are asking the government ‘to restore our pay’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Outside Manchester Royal Infirmary, car horns beep as striking medics wave orange placards demanding “Pay Restoration for Doctors.”

Most are decked out in matching British Medical Association-branded tangerine baseball caps and bucket hats. Some carry homemade cardboard signs: “Overworked, underpaid, undervalued” or “Wes: stop (S)Treating us like [poo drawing]”.

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