THE GMB Union has announced that ambulance workers have voted to hold further industrial action in the coming weeks.
Ambulance staff including paramedics, emergency care assistants, call handlers, and other staff at South Central Ambulance Service will be among those walking out in four new days of strikes.
Industrial action will take place on Monday, February 6, February 20, March 6, and March 20.
Rachel Harrison, GMB’s national secretary, said: “GMB’s ambulance workers are angry, in their own words ‘they are done’ – our message to the Government is clear: talk pay now.
“Ministers have made things worse by demonising the ambulance workers who provided life and limb cover on strike days – playing political games with their scaremongering.
“The only way to solve this dispute is a proper pay offer.”
She continued: “But it seems the cold, dead hands of the Number 10 and 11 Downing Street are stopping this from happening.
“In the face of government inaction, we are left with no choice but industrial action.
“GMB ambulance workers are determined, they’re not going to back down – it’s up for this Government to get serious on pay. We are waiting.”
