Unite announces further ambulance and hospital staff strikes

Unite members on the picket line

An ongoing dispute over pay and safe staffing levels in the NHS has led to the announcement of new strikes by ambulance and hospital staff.

On June 12, Unite members will strike at West Midlands Ambulance Service.

On Wednesday, employees at Christie Hospital in Manchester and City Hospital in Birmingham are scheduled to strike.

The junior doctors' strike called by the British Medical Association is scheduled to coincide with that action.

The Yorkshire Ambulance Service's union members will also strike on June 23 and 26.

One million health care workers, including members of GMB and Unison, and the government reached a pay agreement in May; however, Unite did not support the agreement.

Employees will receive a one-time payment of at least £1,655 along with a pay raise of 5% under that agreement.

The general secretary of the union, Sharon Graham, declared: "Unite will continue to step up its industrial action until the government comes back to the negotiating table and extends a fair pay offer to NHS workers.

"Our members are clear that the NHS's future is being jeopardized by a decade of real-terms pay cuts and underinvestment.

"The pay offer made by the government does nothing to address the staffing shortage that is fueling the current staff exodus or to improve staff retention.

The demands are unaffordable, the government has previously claimed.

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