{"id":28219,"date":"2022-12-06T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=28219"},"modified":"2022-12-06T15:01:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:01:14","slug":"uk-ambulance-workers-to-strike-on-21st-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/12\/06\/uk-ambulance-workers-to-strike-on-21st-december\/","title":{"rendered":"UK ambulance workers to strike on 21st December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Unite union has given more detail of the NHS strike by its members. It said more than 1,600 workers for ambulance trusts in the West Midlands, the north-west and the north-east will go on strike on Wednesday 21 December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it said essential emergency cover would continue while the stoppage was on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement <strong>Sharon Graham<\/strong>, the Unite general secretary, said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Make no mistake, we are now in the fight of our lives for the very NHS itself. These strikes are a stark warning \u2013 our members are taking a stand to save our NHS from this government.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Patients\u2019 lives are already at risk but this government is sitting on the sidelines, dodging its responsibility to sort out the crisis that it has created.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ministers can\u2019t keep hiding behind the pay review body. They know full well it does not address the desperate need to get huge numbers of NHS workers off the breadline.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fail to act now to avert these strikes and the blame will rest firmly at the government\u2019s door.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unite said it was still balloting 10,000 more NHS workers from 38 different employers about strike action, and that in January the strike ballot would be extended to even more NHS staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ambulance crews working for five services in England will strike over pay &amp; staffing from 12pm-12am on Weds 21 Dec. <br><br>\u201cThe government will only have itself to blame if there are strikes in the NHS before Christmas.&quot; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/saragorton_1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@saragorton_1<\/a>, UNISON head of health <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wPI7nDEVPp\">https:\/\/t.co\/wPI7nDEVPp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; UNISON &#8211; UK&#39;s largest union (@unisontheunion) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/unisontheunion\/status\/1600118213337128961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?app_id=180444840287&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpolitics%2Flive%2F2022%2Fdec%2F06%2Frmt-mick-lynch-christmas-rail-strikes-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-uk-politics-latest%3FCMP%3Dshare_btn_fb%26page%3Dwith%253Ablock-638f2fec8f08cb34a8f54352%23block-638f2fec8f08cb34a8f54352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unite union has given more detail of the NHS strike by its members. It said more than 1,600 workers for ambulance trusts in the West Midlands, the north-west and the north-east will go on strike on Wednesday 21 December. But it said essential emergency cover would continue while the stoppage was on. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,12],"tags":[5497,8863,8440,8660,7487,2264,9701,6864,3570,7964,13228,5807,8864,5818,5350,12605,7231,8862,3954],"class_list":["post-28219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-fitness","category-world-news","tag-ambulance","tag-bulance-workers","tag-crisis","tag-essential","tag-general-secretary","tag-government","tag-midlands","tag-ministers","tag-nhs","tag-north","tag-patients","tag-risk","tag-sharon-graham","tag-strike","tag-twitter","tag-uk","tag-union","tag-unison","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}