A vital worker at an NHS hospital in Wales has said she will not be able to afford to heat her home this winter as a strike ballot over pay begins. She says industrial action is a 'sacrifice we have to make' because she fears she may not be able to afford to get to work by January.
Lorna Hood, who works in Swansea, said her fuel bill has almost doubled in recent weeks and with other soaring costs the situation has become unmanageable. The 57-year-old is one of thousands of NHS staff across the nation and rest of the UK who will start voting on Thursday over whether to take industrial action over pay conditions.
Around 350,000 members of Unison working for more than 250 health trusts and boards across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, are being balloted. The proposed strike comes in response to the most recent pay award that saw most NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts get a raise of £1,400, in line with the recommendation of the NHS pay review body.
