More than 1,500 ambulance workers in the Northwest will strike during five non-consecutive days in the next two months, a union said.

Ambulance workers who are members of the GMB union will strike to establish a more satisfactory pay deal with the Government.

These workers include paramedics, emergency care assistants, call handlers, and other staff.

They will all walk out on January 24, February 6 and 20, and March 6 and 20, 2023.

Rachel Harrison, GMB national secretary, said: “GMB’s ambulance workers are angry.

“In their own words, they are done.

“Ministers have made things worse by demonising the ambulance workers who provided life and limb cover on strike days, playing political games with their scaremongering.

“The only way to solve this dispute is a proper pay offer, but it seems the cold, dead hands of Number 10 and 11 Downing Street are stopping this from happening.

“In the face of Government inaction, we are left with no choice but industrial action.

“GMB ambulance workers are determined, they’re not going to back down.

“It’s up to this Government to get serious on pay, we are waiting.”

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