Trade unions to discuss coordinated ‘day of action’ across public sector

Exclusive: Strike would aim to pressure government to improve pay offers in NHS, education, railways and civil service

Trade unions are to meet to discuss holding a coordinated day of action" across the public sector in an attempt to maximise pressure on the government to give workers a better pay deal.

Unions representing staff in the NHS, railways, education and civil service were meeting on Tuesday at the Trades Union Congress headquarters to examine the possibility of escalating the current wave of strikes by all of them staging stoppages on the same day.