Union urges ministers to make a pay offer to striking NHS ambulance staff

GMB says it would ballot members on even a below-inflation deal, as nurses announce two more days of action

The head of a leading public sector union has urged ministers to make a pay offer to striking workers, insisting it does not necessarily have to beat inflation.

Speaking hours after the GMB announced it would postpone till 11 January an ambulance workers’ strike planned for 28 December, the union’s national secretary, Rachel Harrison, told the Guardian an additional pay offer would be taken to members even if it was less than inflation.