Junior doctors plan further action

U.K.

Junior doctors, represented by the BMA trade union, are planning three more periods of 48-hour strike action on 9-11 March and then on 6-8 and 26-28 April. The strikes are in response by the decision of the government to impose new contracts following a failure to negotiate changes to existing contracts. The new arrangements will see reduction in pay for unsocial hours and a weakening of measures to prevent long working hours. Other unions are concerned that the attack on unsocial hours payments will be tried in other parts of the health service.
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