Christmas strikes: NHS Ambulance workers to join mass walkouts

Channel 4 News published this video item, entitled “Christmas strikes: NHS Ambulance workers to join mass walkouts” – below is their description.

The festive period was already delivering an advent calender of strikes involving nurses, postal workers, plus bus and railway staff.

Now ambulance workers in much of England and Wales have promised to walkout on the 21st of December.

The three unions involved, the GMB, Unison and Unite are taking action over pay but said their strike will only affect non-life threatening calls.

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