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A large-scale strike among NHS workers and GP practice staff looks set to go ahead after the trade union Unison voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action over the Government's public sector pension reforms.
With a surprisingly low turnout of just 29%, the ballot saw 245,358 vote in favour of strike action, and 70,253 against. Some 82% of healthcare workers within the union backed strike action.
Unison, which represents practice nurses, administrators and cleaners among others, is the first of the trade unions to get a result from ballots over a strike on 30 November which could involve as many as three million public sector workers.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsart...ction?sp_rid=NjU3NzMyNzAyOQS2&sp_mid=37343304
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With a surprisingly low turnout of just 29%, the ballot saw 245,358 vote in favour of strike action, and 70,253 against. Some 82% of healthcare workers within the union backed strike action.
Unison, which represents practice nurses, administrators and cleaners among others, is the first of the trade unions to get a result from ballots over a strike on 30 November which could involve as many as three million public sector workers.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsart...ction?sp_rid=NjU3NzMyNzAyOQS2&sp_mid=37343304
(free registration required)