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The GMB trade union, which represents British healthcare and ambulance workers, has voted to accept the government's pay offer, effectively ending their efforts to take industrial action. The decision follows that of members of another union, who voted against the pay offer.
Last week, the GMB trade union announced that its members had voted to accept the government's pay offer, which was agreed upon by the government and union leaders last month. The offer would provide GMB members with a one-off payment of two percent of salaries in the 2022-2023 fiscal year and a five percent pay increase in the coming fiscal year.
The GMB's decision means that four unions representing the National Health Service, including midwives, physiotherapists, and ambulance staff, have accepted the proposal. The NHS Staff Council, which includes representatives from NHS employers and trade unions, is set to discuss whether to accept the pay offer on May 2.
GMB National Secretary Rachel Harrison said, "This new pay offer would not have happened without the strike action taken by ambulance and other GMB health workers. Our members recognize that progress has been made, from the government originally offering nothing, health workers will be thousands of pounds better off."
British health minister Steve Barclay said the government's announcement was a sign that the offer was "fair and reasonable" and could end the months-long dispute.
In contrast, four trade unions representing teachers have opted to take coordinated strike action in the UK later this year to increase the pressure on the government over pay and working conditions. The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers' general secretary, Patrick Roach, said that the union's members "will be standing together to demonstrate the power of the teaching profession and the opposition of teachers to pay restraint and cuts to real-terms pay."
