Around 15,000 Unison ambulance workers will strike for the third time in five weeks. They will also be joined by 5,000 of their NHS colleagues at two hospital trusts in Liverpool. Further strikes are planned in the coming weeks by nurses and other NHS workers.
Ambulance workers on the picket line outside London Ambulance Service NHS Trust control room in Waterloo, London. File picAmbulance workers are staging a fresh strike in the escalating dispute over pay and staffing.
Its general secretary Christina McAnea said:"It's simple, all the chancellor needs to do is find the money to pay health workers fairly. "It's strange that it's the chancellor blocking progress. Jeremy Hunt knows the NHS better than anyone in the cabinet."Thousands of members of Unison, Unite and the GMB will walk out across England and Wales.for"not doing a deal" with nurses to end their strike action.
From 7am, paramedics, emergency care assistants, ambulance technicians, other 999 crew members and control room staff across five services in England - London, Yorkshire, the North West, North East and South West - will join picket lines.
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