NHS workers to ballot for strike action over pay
NHS workers march to Downing Street, London, during a rally to demand the government give them a 15 per cent pay rise, in August 2020
GMB is to ballot members working in the NHS for strike action over pay, the union said today, demanding that the government improve on its offer of a 3 per cent rise.
The current proposal is is below the rate of inflation and so amounts to a pay cut in real terms, the union said.
Tens of thousands of GMB members in the NHS are eligible to vote on the call for strike action and more than 90 per cent have rejected the government’s offer.
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