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The hard-Left activists trying to derail a new NHS pay deal have links to Extinction Rebellion and are campaigning to bring down the Government, the Mail can reveal today.
The NHS Workers Say No group wants nurses, paramedics and physiotherapists to relaunch strikes and reject the 5 per cent pay rise and bonus negotiated by their unions.
Key figures behind the campaign group are supporters of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who have publicly stated that they want to ‘get the Tories out’ and want to sow chaos and further disruption by stepping up strike action, our investigation found.
Unions spent weeks thrashing out an improved pay offer with Health Secretary Steve Barclay and have urged members to back it in a ballot.
But the militants threaten to undermine the progress, with patients made to wait longer for care if the deal is rejected and strikes force NHS bosses to cancel hundreds of thousands more appointments and operations.
A key individual behind the group is Harry Eccles (right), a self-described ‘libertarian socialist’, who has campaigned for Labour and who still expresses his support for Mr Corbyn
NHS Workers Say No was co-founded by Holly Turner (pictured left with Jeremy Corbyn) a firebrand campaigner and nurse, who has called for a general strike
NHS Workers Say No is part of an ‘alliance’ of hard-line organisations that includes Extinction Rebellion, Black Lives Matter, Don’t Pay UK and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Together, they are ‘demanding systemic change to tackle the interconnected crises of climate, cost of living, and
