NHS strikes could finally end as paramedics and ambulance drivers accept pay deal

🔴 Members of the GMB union have voted to accept the Government’s pay offer, meaning the deal for NHS staff is almost certain to go through, paving the way for the end of the strikes chaos in hospitals janemerrick23 reports:

Nurses’ strike will still go ahead this weekend but pay deal for all NHS staff makes future walkouts less likely

Tens of thousands of ambulance workers, including paramedics and drivers, and health workers voted 56 per cent to 44 per cent in favour of the pay dealMembers of the GMB union have voted to accept the Government’s pay offer, meaning the deal for NHS staff is almost certain to go through, paving the way for the end of the strikes chaos in hospitals.

Tens of thousands of ambulance workers, including paramedics and drivers, and health workers voted 56 per cent to 44 per cent in favour of the pay deal.on Friday and the Royal College of Nursing earlier this month. Despite the no votes from Unite and the RCN, the combined membership of GMB and Unison, which earlier voted in favour of the deal, mean it is likely that the NHS staff council will vote in favour of the deal in a meeting next Tuesday.

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