Union leader calls Rishi Sunak deluded as NHS pay row escalates
by Denis Campbell, Kiran Stacey and Rachel Hall from World news | The Guardian on (#68K4S)
GMB's Rachel Harrison says staff will not be fobbed off' by PM kicking the can' into next year's pay round
A health union leader has described Rishi Sunak as deluded for suggesting NHS staff should abandon their campaign to secure a bigger pay rise this year.
The GMB's national secretary, Rachel Harrison, made the remark in response to Downing Street's insistence that it would not talk about improving the 1,400 pay award for frontline personnel for 2022/23 even though it has triggered the wave of NHS strikes.
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