Resident doctors in England are to strike for six days next month in the ongoing row over jobs and pay, the British Medical Association has announced.
The latest round of industrial action will start just after the Easter long weekend from 7am on 7 April, the union said.
The strike will run until 6.59am on 13 April.
“We have been negotiating in good faith for weeks to try and end the simultaneous pay and jobs crises for resident doctors,” BMA Resident Doctors Committee chairman Jack Fletcher said.
“Frustratingly we had been making good progress right up until the point, in the last two weeks, when the Government began to shift the goalposts.
“As talks progressed it became clear that the money proposed for pay increases was now going to be spread over three years.
“This is combined with today’s pay review body (DDRB) recommendation of a 3.5% uplift pointing to yet more years in which our pay, at best, barely treads water.
“We have made abundantly clear throughout this dispute that our aim is pay restoration, and any deal that did not move us substantially in that direction was not going to fly.”
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