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24/11/2014
NHS Workers Stage Four-Hour Strike
NHS workers in England and Northern Ireland have staged a four hour strike in a dispute over pay.
Members of nine unions, which includes nurses, midwives, ambulance staff and porters, are protesting over a decision not to implement a 1% pay rise, as recommended by a review.
The dispute arose after ministers announced that only staff without an automatic progression-in-the-job rise, would receive a 1% pay increase. A pay review board however, recommended that all staff should be given the same increase.
The across-the-board rise has been implemented in Scotland and no decision has yet been taken in Northern Ireland, however, the department of health has said that giving all staff an increase would risk frontline jobs.
Workers will follow the four-hour strike with a work-to-rule policy for the next six days.
(MH/CD)
Members of nine unions, which includes nurses, midwives, ambulance staff and porters, are protesting over a decision not to implement a 1% pay rise, as recommended by a review.
The dispute arose after ministers announced that only staff without an automatic progression-in-the-job rise, would receive a 1% pay increase. A pay review board however, recommended that all staff should be given the same increase.
The across-the-board rise has been implemented in Scotland and no decision has yet been taken in Northern Ireland, however, the department of health has said that giving all staff an increase would risk frontline jobs.
Workers will follow the four-hour strike with a work-to-rule policy for the next six days.
(MH/CD)
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