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STAFF in the Scottish NHS have overwhelmingly backed strike action over falling take-home pay.
Health union GMB said 4,000 paramedics, technicians, nurses, porters, domestics and radiographers now have a mandate to withdraw their labour after SNP ministers offered a below-inflation wage boost of 7 per cent to most workers.
Some 89 per cent of Scottish Ambulance Service workers who voted supported walkouts, as did well over 90 per cent of the union’s members at the Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board, Lanarkshire, Forth Valley and Lothian.
GMB Scotland organiser Karen Leonard said: “The government must do more to properly value NHS workers and the services they deliver, not just to confront the cost-of-living crisis but also to tackle the understaffing crisis that’s left staff utterly exhausted and increasingly angry.
“There should be no surprise in government circles about this clear mandate.”
Last month, Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said the pay offer is the “largest of its kind since devolution and reflects the hard work” of health service workers.
Ms Leonard urged the MSP for Glasgow Pollok to “listen to workers’ voices” or face strikes.
