Resident doctors’ strike undermines union movement, says Wes Streeting
by Peter Walker and Rachel Hall from World news | The Guardian on (#6YW45)
Exclusive: Health secretary urges medics not to join BMA industrial action on Friday
A strike by resident doctors enormously undermines the entire trade union movement", Wes Streeting has argued, urging them not to join industrial action on Friday morning.
In an article for the Guardian, the health secretary says the decision by the British Medical Association (BMA) to push for new strikes in England immediately after receiving a pay rise of 22% to cover 2023-24 and 2024-25 is unreasonable and unprecedented.
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