The UK's crisis-hit National Health Service is set for its biggest ever day of industrial action next month after thousands of ambulance workers announced on Friday a series of new strikes. The state-funded healthcare system will see nurses and ambulance workers from three different unions walk out on February 6 in an ongoing pay…
Collectively, they amount to what British media describe as the biggest day of strike action that the NHS, founded in 1948, has ever experienced. The firm stance has set up a stand-off with various NHS staff, who argue they helped the country through the pandemic but have faced real-terms pay cuts over the last decade.
Around 3,000 ambulance workers who are members of Unite will stage 10 further days of strikes across the UK in the coming weeks, including on February 6 in Wales and much of England.