let's aet you, rachel harrison. thank you. let's get more — you, rachel harrison. thank you.e from jim reed, i you, rachel harrison. thank you. i let's get more from jim reed, this sounds like good news? tater? sounds like good news? very promising- — sounds like good news? very promising. it's _ sounds like good news? - promising. it's complicated because there's three different unions which represent ambulance workers also in the last half hour, the gmb and unison, the two largest, have suspended their strike action in england planned for next week. the smallest, which is unite, has not, so that strike is still going ahead as planned on monday and that'll be across the west midlands, the northeast and the northwest of england. so a bit of a mixed picture still, 45000 and builds workers represent and by unions, and only 3000 resented by unite, so it's the smallest union. there is some confusion and complexity at the moment. ., moment. the government representatives _ moment. the government representatives would've l moment. the government _ representatives would've approache

rachel harrison told us the government had moved significantly in making this offer. >> we will now movell ballot of members working across the nhs and the ambulance service. we will be saying that this is the best we believe can be achieved through negotiations and therefore recommend an acceptance, or ultimately it will come down to members to vote whether they accept or reject. the labour opposition says the offer comes too late in the trunk action could have been avoided. here's the shadow health secretary. >> i think where we are today is where we could've been before christmas, wrinkly. we had 140,000 council appointments as a result of the strike disruption. they refused to negotiate before christmas when they were able to do so. he's finally negotiated an end to the dispute. he doesn't know how it's going to pay for it because the budget was yesterday and he's concluded the talks today. it's an all-around demonstration of the incompetence of this government. >> let's get some reaction to this within a any staff nurse in london, and a member of the united union. explain what your

rachel harrison is the gmb�*s national secretary and told us the government had moved significantly int year's pamper, ——gmb was asking for pay talks to be reopened, last year's pay offer, and negotiate with last year's path recommend that is what we have received, so we will now move to a full consult to take a pallet of gmb members working across the nhs and the ambulance service. we will be saying that this is the best we believe can be achieved through negotiations, and therefore recommend an acceptance, but ultimately, it will come down to gmb members to vote whether they accept or reject. the labour opposition say the offer comes too late and that strike action could have been avoided. here's the shadow health secretary wes streeting: i think where we are today is where we could have been before christmas, frankly. we've had 140,000 cancelled appointments and operations as a result of the strike disruption, and all because the government point blank refused to negotiate with the nurses come up with the paramedics and others before christmas when they are able to do so. so, well d

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rachel harrison has only had a few hours of sleep before it's time to get ernie and olive up and readyping board out, please? she and her husband matt work in the nhs and arrange their shifts to make sure one of them is always around to look after them. you've got ten minutes to get some of this fruit down you. i finished at midnight last night. matt's got up and gone to work at six o'clock this morning. so only like a small gap, but then we haven't seen each other because he's been asleep. when we visited rachel last week in stoke—on—trent, she had been planning ahead for walk—outs today and tomorrow when school will be closed. who came last night, 0live, to our house? tooth fairy. like so many families across england, they have been juggling their plans. it is disruptive to the children. 0n the other hand, you do understand, really, why they've decided to strike. they're expected to do more and more and more with less and less and less. instead of the usual drop—off, ernie and olive will be spending the day at a friend's house. there we go. have a good day. nearly all of the teachers