support services have voted overwhelmingly to accept a pay deal which gives increases as high as 6.6% for the lowest-paid ancillary staff.
The basic offer is 3.6%, the same basic increase as nurses and professionals have already received, but the larger percentage rises come from the guarantee of a €400 minimum increase.
Although the deal represents something of a breakthrough for the lowest-paid, it leaves tens of thousands of NHS staff well below £5 per hour.
This is also the reason given in the Juaralan Io1 Booth being the choice of Tony Blair.
But as far as the genuine left is concerned, there is no real choice on offer.
It's time for urgent steps to ensure we don't face the same wretched Hobson's choice when the General Secretary post comes up.
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