Socialist Teachers Alliance: UNIONS THREATEN NHS STRIKE OVER BELOW-INFLATION PAY INCREASE
A summer of discontent across the NHS in England and Wales was threatened yesterday by Unison, the public service union, in protest at a below-inflation pay increase.
Representatives of the union’s 450,000 health workers voted unanimously at their conference in Brighton to ballot for industrial action up to and including strikes.
Delegates decided to give Gordon Brown, the chancellor, a chance to rescind his decision to withhold part of a 2.5% pay award that was recommended by an independent pay review body. If he does not do so, the union will proceed to ballot.
Follow
