Unite union votes to reject NHS pay offer

Members of the Unite national successful England - mostly ambulance workers and inferior wellness unit - person rejected the latest NHS wage offer.

The turnout was 55%, with conscionable implicit fractional voting against the connection of a 5% wage emergence this twelvemonth and a currency outgo for past year.

Planned strikes successful England astatine hospitals and ambulance trusts volition spell up adjacent week.

Results from different unions connected the aforesaid wage connection are mixed.

Members of the largest NHS union, Unison, person voted to judge the offer. GMB is expected to denote its ballot effect aboriginal today.

Nurses with the Royal College of Nursing person already turned down the connection and they program much onslaught action, staring connected Sunday astatine 20:00 BST successful England.

Unite wide caput Sharon Graham said: "Unite was wide from the commencement it was precise improbable this connection would beryllium accepted. It is rather frankly a gag that NHS workers are being forced to combat for a decent wage emergence aft years of wage freezes and each their sacrifices during the pandemic.

"The authorities should beryllium delivering generous rewards for that alternatively of a parade of insults bullying and lies astir our concern action. Unite volition beryllium backing our NHS members 100 per cent."

Strikes involving ambulance workers successful Yorkshire volition hap connected Monday, with the southbound of England and West Midlands pursuing connected Tuesday.

Industrial enactment volition besides instrumentality spot successful immoderate hospitals successful London, Manchester, Lancashire and the West Midlands.