UK govt refuses to give way on pay as nurses, medics strike
The British government says it will not offer more money to nurses and ambulance crews to end strikes that are piling pressure on an already overstretched health system LONDON -- The British government said Tuesday it will not offer more money to nurse s and ambulance crews to end strike s that are piling pressure on an already overstretched Health system. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative administration is under pressure to increase its pay offer to Health care staff who are seeking big raises in the face of decades-high inflation that was running at 10.7% in November. Thousands of nurses walked off the job Tuesday in their second 24-hour strike this month. Ambulance drivers, paramedics and dispatchers are set to strike on Wednesday and again on Dec. 28. They are joining railway staff, passport officers and postal workers in the U.K.’s biggest strike wave for decades, a response to a cost-of-living crisis driven by soaring food and energy prices in the wake of the COVID-19 p...