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Ambulance workers stage another day of strike action as dispute over pay for overstretched staff shows no sign of ending
Ambulance workers on the picket line outside London Ambulance Service NHS Trust control room in Waterloo, London. Picture date: Monday January 23, 2023.

THOUSANDS of ambulance workers staged more strike action today as the bitter dispute over pay for overstretched NHS staff showed no sign of abating.

Nearly 2,000 paramedics, emergency care assistants, call handlers and other staff across north-west England downed tools for 12 hours from midday, their union GMB said.

The walkout, which followed industrial action by thousands of GMB, Unite and Unison ambulance employees on Monday, came ahead of what could be biggest-ever NHS strike on February 6, when all three unions are due to strike alongside nurses.

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