Thousands of ambulance workers across five services in England will strike on February 10 in the long-running dispute over pay and staffing, Unison has announced. The walkout involves ambulance workers in London, Yorkshire, the South West, North East and North West.
Strikes will now be happening across the NHS every day next week apart from Wednesday. Unison urged the Government to stop “pretending the strikes will simply go away” and act decisively to end the dispute by improving pay.
The union warned that unless the Government has a “major rethink” over NHS pay, and gets involved in “actual talks” with unions, it will announce strike dates running into March. By then, the dispute is likely to affect double the number of trusts and extend to the whole of the ambulance service in England, said the union.
