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Nurses hold a picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital in London, as part of the UK's biggest round of health service strikes, stepping up their demands for better pay to combat Britain's cost of living crisis. As well as nurses, thousands of ambulance workers represented by the GMB and Unite unions are also going on strike. IMAGES
Images show a picket line in front of UCL hospital in London as junior doctors begin a 3-day strike over pay at the start of a week that will also see teachers, train staff and civil servants walk out in the lastest of a wave of UK industrial action. The strike by junior doctors -- who are not senior specialists but can still have decades of experience -- is the longest they have ever staged. The British Medical Association, the body representing them, says junior doctors have suffered a 26% real-terms paycut since 2008/09 and are demanding a 35% wage hike to combat this. IMAGES
UK ambulance workers take to the picket line outside the London Ambulance Service headquarters, as they escalate a pay dispute with the government after walkouts by nurses and other public sector staff earlier in the week. The latest industrial action is being undertaken by paramedics and emergency call handlers, and comes amid similar pay and conditions-driven strikes by rail staff, passport control officers, postal workers and other NHS staff. IMAGES
Images show nurses in front of London's St Thomas' Hospital amidst unprecedented walkouts. Up to 100,000 nurses around the UK are staging a one-day strike as a "last resort" in their fight for better wages and working conditions. IMAGES
Tunis, Dec 1 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Mohamed Messara) A group of general practitioners rallied on Tuesday in front of the offices of the Tunisian Ministry of Health and started a four-day-long strike to protest the adoption of government decree no. 2019-341.7FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.
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