More than 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike across nine areas of the UK including Wales, the GMB union has announced. Paramedics and all other staff of the ambulance service are set to walk out before Christmas in a dispute over pay and conditions.
Almost 1,500 Welsh Ambulance Service workers have voted to strike. It comes after the Welsh Government announced that most NHS staff would be entitled to a pay increase of £1,400, amounting to a pay increase of 7.5% for lower paid staff in bands 1-4, and an increase of 4% for staff in bands 6-7.
Staff at eight other ambulance trusts have backed industrial action over the UK Government's offer of a 4% pay increase, which GMB has described as a "massive real-terms pay cut" with inflation at 11.1% as of data from October.
