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Health workers at Merseyside to step up strike action

HEALTHCARE workers at a Merseyside hospital are to step up their strike action over pay.

More than 20 staff at Arrowe Park hospital in the Wirral care for patients who have undergone operations.

Their union Unite says they are wrongly graded for the jobs they do and have been underpaid by £8,000.

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