UK ambulance staff in Wales to stage strike on Monday

LONDON, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Around 1,500 ambulance workers in Wales will take strike action on Monday, joining some 10,000 others in England, after rejecting a new pay offer from the devolved Welsh government, trade union GMB said on Friday.

The pay offer had amounted to an average 5.5% pay rise and a 1.5% one-off bonus, GMB said, describing it as “too low”.

Reporting by Sachin Ravikumar; editing by William James

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