Our frontline health workers might be forced back on to the picket line
Health Minister Robin Swann has warned that he does not want to go back to the 2019 situation in which Northern Ireland health workers went on strike over pay.
The DUP has blocked the formation of a powersharing Executive as part of its protest against Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol. “There is an Executive commitment for our health workers for pay parity with their colleagues in England and Wales. “Unfortunately that is where we now are specifically with the recommendations with regards to the increase in pay.
Earlier this week, Stormont Finance Minister Conor Murphy joined with his counterparts in Wales and Scotland to call on Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi to develop a “fair approach” to public sector pay and ask for an increase in devolved budgets to deal with emerging pressures, including in the health service.
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