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Ambulance workers on the picket line outside ambulance headquarters in Coventry, as paramedics, ambulance technicians and call handlers walk out in England and Wales, in a strike co-ordinated by the GMB, Unison and Unite unions over pay and conditions that will affect non-life threatening calls. Picture date: Wednesday December 21, 2022.
A SECOND strike by ambulance workers has been suspended to thank the public for their support during the first nationwide ambulance strike for 30 years.
On Wednesday, unions Unison, GMB and Unite took action jointly with a one-day stoppage in the fight by NHS workers for better pay and conditions.
GMB members were to have staged a second strike on December 28.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
