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NHS workers reject government's 3% pay rise and prepare for a winter of industrial action
NHS staff and supporters march on Regent Street in central London, as part of a series of marches and rallies form across the country calling for a 15% pay rise for NHS workers in September 2020
TENS of thousands of NHS workers have dismissed the government’s proposed 3 per cent pay rise as grossly inadequate and are preparing for a winter of industrial action.
Unite, which represents 100,000 NHS staff, says 90 per cent have voted in a ballot to reject the below-inflation increase.
Inflation stands at 4.8 per cent and the union says NHS workers in England have suffered a real-terms pay cut of 19 per cent since the Tories took power in 2010.
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‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says