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Unite’s national officer for health, Jackie Williams, said:
Nursing staff and other allied health professionals have reacted with anger to being overlooked when pay rises were given to many in the public sector last month and the Government not hearing the health trade unions’ call to bring their pay rise forward from April 2021.
Last week, health workers marched to Downing Street to vent their anger that all their efforts during the pandemic, which has claimed so many of their colleagues’ lives, have appeared to be ignored when it comes to recognition in their pay packets.
