More strike days have been announced for ambulance workers in Wales. It comes as one union called off their strikes following a new pay offer from the Welsh Government.
Welsh ambulance workers who are members of the union Unite are set to strike on February 20, 21 and 22. The union GMB was due to strike on February 6 and 7 but the action days were called off after the Welsh Government offered a pay increase of 1.5% and a one-off payment equivalent to a further 1.5% of salary. Strike action still went ahead by those who are members of Unite.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said that ambulance service workers claim the new pay offer is not acceptable. She said: “I have visited Ambulance Service picket lines in Wales today and our members are telling me loud and clear that the new pay offer from Welsh Government is not acceptable. Unite is therefore escalating its industrial action. Without a decent consolidated pay rise, the staffing exodus afflicting NHS Wales will continue, and so will the current crisis”.
