Scotland’s largest health union has suspended its strike ballot, and will now ask NHS Lanarkshire staff if it should accept the offer of a £2000 rise to workers’ wages.
Unison will ask its 50,000 members across the country if they are willing to accept the Scottish Government’s £2205 flat pay offer, one which Health Secretary Humza Yousaf last week heralded as the largest in Scotland since devolution.
Wilma Brown, chairwoman of the union’s health committee, said: “This is a final pay offer from the Scottish Government, it is also significantly different from the previous offers, so we think it is right that NHS members decide whether they are willing to accept it.”
