The organiser of a protest against the Government's proposed one per cent pay rise for NHS workers was today fined £10,000. Nurses and NHS workers from the campaign group NHS Workers Say No, and Unite's Guys and St Thomas Hospital Union branch, also held a protest outside Downing Street today. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said 'difficult economic challenges' were behind the Government's decision to recommend a one per cent pay rise for NHS workers. 'Over a million NHS staff are going to be receiving pay increases over and above that. Demonstrators planned a socially-distanced protest outside Downing Street and in Manchester city centre over the pay offer.

Source: Daily Mail March 07, 2021 20:50 UTC