More than 5,500 NHS workers, including optometrists, push for strikes in 2023
More than 5,500 NHS workers, including optometrists, across Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside and London have begun balloting for strike action in early 2023.
Unite, the union, said its healthcare members warned the NHS was on 'life support' and that investment was needed to stem issues with recruitment and retention.
Sharon Graham, general secretary at Unite, said: ‘The NHS is on life support and without proper pay and funding it may not survive. That’s why NHS workers are standing up. They know that decent pay is essential to the service’s future.’
Ballot results were expected in late December.