Union urges ministers to make a pay offer to striking NHS ambulance staff
by Kiran Stacey, Denis Campbell and Peter Walker from World news | The Guardian on (#674VP)
GMB says it would ballot members on even a below-inflation deal, as nurses announce two more days of action
The head of a leading public sector union has urged ministers to make a pay offer to striking workers, insisting it does not necessarily have to beat inflation.
Speaking hours after the GMB announced it would postpone till 11 January an ambulance workers' strike planned for 28 December, the union's national secretary, Rachel Harrison, told the Guardian an additional pay offer would be taken to members even if it was less than inflation.
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