The UK's biggest trade union has announced ambulance workers intend to take strike action before Christmas.
Thousands of 999 call handlers, ambulance technicians, paramedics and their colleagues working for ambulance services in the North East, North West, London, Yorkshire and the South West are due to be called out on strike over pay and staffing levels, UNISON said.
The union revealed large numbers of its members had voted to take industrial action following a long-running dispute over pay. The exact areas that will be affected is not yet known as UNISON said the vote was just below the 50% threshold in many trusts. UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:"The decision to take action and lose a day's pay is always a tough call. It's especially challenging for those whose jobs involve caring and saving lives.
"But thousands of ambulance staff and their NHS colleagues know delays won't lessen, nor waiting times reduce, until the government acts on wages. That's why they've taken the difficult decision to strike."Royal College of Nursing to stage a mass walkoutEarlier this month, both unions were among several that met Health Secretary Steve Barclay to discuss the growing NHS"workforce crisis" and to urge the government to take action on wages.
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