More than 10,000 ambulance workers have voted to strike in nine trusts across England and Wales, including South East Coast Ambulance Service.
Paramedics, emergency care assistants, call handlers and other staff are now set to walk out in the following trusts:
South West Ambulance Service
South East Coast Ambulance Service
North West Ambulance Service
South Central Ambulance Service
North East Ambulance Service
East Midlands Ambulance Service
West Midlands Ambulance Service
Welsh Ambulance Service
Yorkshire Ambulance Service
Workers across the ambulance services and some NHS Trusts say they have voted to strike over the Government’s imposed 4 per cent pay award – with the GMB union calling it another massive real terms pay cut.
GMB will now meet with reps in the coming days to discuss potential strike dates before Christmas.
Let’s all go on strike for more pay!
I can understand striking against bad conditions or similar but where are all these pay rises going to end? Higher prices, more tax paid, more inflation.
Everybody thinks they are a special case when in fact we are, as near as dammit, all in the same boat!
You’ll get very little sympathy from me on this one along with all the other public sector workers striking or threatening to.
Enough is enough.
So is it ok for private sector workers to go on strike for more pay?
Since this government came to power, what pay rises there were didn’t keep up with inflation. So, pay rises of 5 – 10% will simply be putting workers on a salary scale equivalent to what they got 10 years ago.
Where will the money come from?
£350,000,000 a week, for a start.
£170,000,000,000 profits by energy companies might help.
If only we hadn’t wasted so much money on lockdowns and furlough.
Andrew YAWN! You really do like commenting on things that suit your political agenda. .
I think you have a particularly axe to grind about private motorists. In case you missed it I replied to your last comment on the news thread on the crash on the M2 which resulted in the tragic death of a lady from Broadstairs. I suggest you read my comment and check your facts before posting on here.
Andrew YAWN! You really do like commenting on things that suit your political agenda. .
I think you have a particularly axe to grind about private motorists. In case you missed it I replied to your last comment on the news thread on the crash on the M2 which resulted in the tragic death of a lady from Broadstairs. I suggest you read my comment and check your facts on such issues you comment on before posting.
He’s very selective in answering questions if it doesn’t support his far left extremist views (i.e., he bangs on about the “dangers” of Covid, but avoids commenting on the threat of diphtheria).
Ton
True enough is enough.
What is wrong with good honest working people getting a fair wage to live to a fair standard of living.
This tory government is just like all tory governments rich get richer the poor get poorer. Like normal it all ends with the working classes going on strike followed by riots. It’s the tory way to screw the working classes until we say enough is enough
its a sad day when even our emergency services are threatening to strike , what a mess this country is in.
More pay for writers!!
Hope the Page 3 Girls don’t go on strike.
Sadly the “woke” brigade made ’em cover up in The Sun years ago!
With the service they currently provide, I thought they were on strike already.
No Sympathy
What a terrible comment
These people work long hard hours, we clapped them on a Thursday night, some lost their lives fighting covid19.
Now this country needs to show then just how much we value our frontline NHS.
Forget clapping that doesnt pay the bills, given the a good pay rise
The service they provide is very good considering the time they have to wait to leave patients at the hospital who then have to wait for a bed to clear and it’s all caused in the main by people bed blocking but it’s not even their fault its governments past and definitely presents inability to be able to get enough carers trained or wishing to work for the money they get, especially when they can work in a supermarket for more money and doing less hours, care work is hard very hard but my daughter does it and at 19 years old, so the way I see it is if carers, nurses, ambulance workers, are given a wage that is showing the true value of the work each does then I say the only way is to strike, you can blame the pandemic, furlough, or lockdowns it goes back to 2008 and possibly further back since they have been given a raise of value, so many of the carers who have to drive between houses pay some of their own money to help buy fuel for the car as the allowance for fuel has been out stripped by the cost of it and doesn’t cover fuel let alone wear and tear on car, so remember when you wait for an ambulance or sitting in A&E waiting for over 4 hours to be seen by a doctor or your in a corridor waiting for a bed on a ward that for the 2 plus years of covid these people who have or will helping you have been the ones in the front line of it all saving many lives most having done 24 hour shifts to keep things going and you or most of you clapped them they not striking just for money it’s too also make things safer for you, me, all of us, so blame the bloody governments of past and present as it is their mess not the workers, I hope all sides can get together and sit round the table to get it sorted out as none of them really want to strike,
Pay the ambulance and paramedic workers – I have needed their services a few times and most of these staff are excellent!
Stop sending billions to Ukraine to kill people, tax the rich and bring in a “Tobin tax” on share transactions. Plenty of money around – just need to spend it on the right priorities!
Isn’t the idea of Ukraine to stop people getting killed by Russians?
Sack ‘‘em all , who needs a postman , other companies can post, who needs a GP , you can’t get an appointment, who needs a £50000 a year train driver, go robot. Who needs all the new houses in Thanet (imagine the chaos when they’re occupied) save the countryside and Manston
Agreed.