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TyskySour: Ambulance Workers On Strike

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Philosophy

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

After a decade of Tory under-investment, ambulance workers are the latest group to strike to defend the NHS. We speak to one of them on the show. Plus: Two Tory MPs go on mad rants; and Mick Lynch tells a Tory MP the reality of Britain’s railways. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gerbil. __________________________________________ Support […]

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0:00.0

The Civil Servants are the latest group to have said they're going out on strike.

0:09.8

They'll be on strike on the 1st of February, 100,000 of them going to be big.

0:14.3

Today though, we're talking about a group of workers on strike as we speak,

0:19.9

the ambulance workers. I might be speaking to someone who is taking strike action today.

0:25.2

Plenty of other stories for you tonight. I'm going to let them come as a surprise.

0:29.6

If you've got loads coming up, six, we've got a bit carried away today in the studio, I think.

0:33.3

I'm joined by Dahlia. Dahlia, how are you doing?

0:35.5

Good. I've been, I've had quite a slow day today,

0:38.8

been like lowering the tone of my life by reading snippets of Harry's memoir on Twitter.

0:45.5

So this will hopefully kind of bring me back into the serious world,

0:49.2

because I've had a very unserious day.

0:51.7

Am I allowed to say this, Dahlia, that you messaged me about 5pm saying,

0:54.5

are we not going to talk about Harry?

0:56.1

I know. I had so many, I just had so, it's purely selfish. I just wanted to gossip.

1:02.2

We talked about it last Friday. I feel like I can't be bothered to, it's not even like a political

1:08.4

judgment, like I don't want to use up Tisky time talking about it. It's just like I can't

1:11.2

bother to watch the interviews. So I'm not up today on it. Maybe something will happen that

1:15.2

grabs my attention in the coming days. Ambulance workers are currently out on a 24-hour strike

1:22.9

The dispute is overpay and conditions. The government offered ambulance workers a 4.75%

1:28.4

pay rise last year, but the unions argue that isn't nearly enough to offset the rising cost

1:33.1

of living with inflation, having hit 11% in 2022. But ambulance workers have also expressed

1:39.2

concern over the broader crisis in the NHS and falling standards of patient safety.

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