Year: 2023

Great Britain: Largest ever healthcare strikes over pay dispute EU

Nurses and ambulances staff stepped up their demands for better pay Monday to combat the UK’s cost of living crisis with their biggest round of health service strikes. The stoppages — part of a wave of industrial action across the UK economy — will see nurses and paramedics take action on the same day for the first time. FRANCE 24’s correspondent in London Benedicte Paviot tells us more.

Britain faces biggest healthcare worker strikes in history of NHS EU

Britain faces its largest ever strike by health workers on Monday as tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers walk out in an escalating pay dispute which the health minister said would place further strain on the National Health Service (NHS).