Health unions say NHS pay review body is ‘no longer fit for purpose’ and refuse to engage with it
Ambulance workers on the picket line outside London Ambulance Service NHS Trust control room in Waterloo, London, as members of Unison and GMB unions take strike action over pay and conditions that will affect non-life threatening calls
HEALTH unions slammed the NHS pay review body as a “total farce” today as they announced a refusal to engage with the supposedly independent group.
Unite, Unison and 12 other unions said that the body, which has its remit set by Downing Street, is “no longer fit for purpose and should be abolished.”
The unions, representing more than one million ambulance staff, nurses, porters, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists and other NHS workers in England, instead demanded direct wage talks with ministers and employers.
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