Striking NHS junior doctors on the picket line outside Leicester Royal Infirmary as the BMA holds a 96-hour walkout in a dispute over pay, April 11, 2023
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JUNIOR doctors in England are to escalate their industrial action for better pay by striking for five days next month in the largest NHS action in history, their union said yesterday.
The British Medical Association (BMA) also reported junior doctors being “inundated” with job offers from abroad as the government ignores their call for their pay to be restored to 2008 levels.
In one instance, the government of South Australia sent a truck with advertisement hoardings to picket lines offering the doctors well-paid jobs there, it said.
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER