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The GMB picket line at Goole Ambulance station
[Neil Terry Photography / neilterryphotography.co.uk]
A PARAMEDIC described the mood on the picket line at her ambulance station in Goole, east Yorkshire, as “upbeat and determined” this morning.
Dawn Turner is a member of GMB, one of the three unions urging the government to enter discussions about their need for a pay rise in the ambulance dispute.
Last week she was in Westminster hoping to meet Tory Health Secretary Steve Barclay to put the unions’ case.
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