More than 10,000 ambulance workers across nine NHS trusts in England and Wales will go on strike tomorrow in a dispute over pay. Paramedics, emergency care assistants, call handlers and other staff from South West, South East Coast, North West, South Central, North East, East and West Midlands, Welsh and Yorkshire ambulance services will walk out.
Major pickets will be staged in Lancaster, Burnley, Liverpool, Lincoln, Nottingham, Leicester, Cardiff, Wrexham, Brighton, Eastbourne, Medway, Stoke, Donnington, Wakefield, Bradford, Huddersfield and Middlesbrough. It comes after GMB Union members voted to strike over the Government’s imposed 4% pay award - which union leaders said amounts to “another massive real terms pay cut”.
Rachel Harrison, GMB National Secretary, said: “Ambulance workers across England and Wales will go on strike for the second time. GMB cancelled a planned strike over the Christmas period to say thank you to the public for their incredible support.
