Unions predict a backlash against the UK government’s intentions to offer a 1% pay rise to most NHS workers

They have spent the last year on the front line of the Covid crisis – risking their lives to save others. A day after the end of the budget, the government is recommending a one percent increase in wages for most NHS workers in England this year and that, unions say, will go down well as workers are still facing tremendous pandemic stress. (Subscribe:

According to the latest government data, another 242 people have been killed with Covid, bringing the total to 124,025 in the UK. There have been another 6,500 new cases in the UK. Less than 279,000 people received the first dose of the Covid vaccine yesterday, which means nearly 21 million people received the first dose of the vaccine. Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/Channel4News .

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