US EditionNurses to reject pay deal amid warnings of new NHS strikes
- On Friday, the GMB union representing thousands of health workers, including ambulance crews, rejected the government’s pay deal.
- Analysis from the Royal College of Nursing found pay is £8,000 lower than inflation-adjusted levels, highlighting severe erosion over the past years and a need to prioritise early-career wages.
- Turnout projections exceeding 50% accompanied the 67% vote against the 3.6% pay award, union said.
- Overwhelming rejection raises the prospect of strikes later in the year, BBC understands, while the union will demand summer negotiations to avert an autumn strike ballot.
- Later this week, the union will announce indicative vote results expected to show overwhelming rejection, and it has written to Health Secretary Wes Streeting seeking an urgent meeting on pay.
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Nurses expected to vote to reject proposed pay deal – report
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Earlier this month, I wrote about how both Labour and the Conservatives have failed to find a way to adequately confront the problem of strikes in the public sector, and specifically the NHS. Today, the Tories announced that they would ban doctors from striking; how does that rate as a solution? One can see the attraction, in theory – although obviously much would depend on whether or not such a prohibition was actually legal under the ECHR (alt…
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