Deliberate strikes by NHS staff appeared set to go forward after commerce union leaders branded talks with Steve Barclay over pay “bitterly disappointing” and an “insult”.
A walkout of ambulance staff will go forward on Wednesday after the failed disaster talks, throughout which Mr Barclay instructed union leaders any pay enhance must contain larger “productiveness and effectivity” from workers.
The Royal Faculty of Nursing mentioned ministers “have a distance to journey to avert subsequent week’s nurse strike”, whereas physiotherapists additionally mentioned they’d be asserting strike dates later this week after the talks broke down.
