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GMB members have voted overwhelmingly to reject the three-year pay deal for NHS and ambulance workers, it was announced today at the union’s conference in Brighton.
In total, 87 per cent of NHS members turned down the deal – which amounts to three more years of real-terms pay cuts for over half of NHS employees, GMB says.
Tens of thousands of the NHS members – including two thirds of all ambulance staff in England – rejected it.
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