00:00So we felt like we had no choice but to return to the picket lines. Once again, regrettably, to take
00:05further industrial action, because right at the last minute, despite eight weeks of genuinely constructive talks with the government and
00:12the health secretary, we felt like we were making progress on a number of fronts, and then right at the
00:16last minute, we had the health secretary and the government reduce the offer that was on the table, and then
00:23stretch it over a number of years.
00:25That is likely to bake in real-terms pay cuts, not just for this year, but in future years, and
00:32also there are some other issues around job insecurity and a whole range of other things that we've laid out
00:37to the health secretary.
00:38None of that was resolved, and that's why we feel like we've had no choice but to call for further
00:43action. We gave the government several opportunities before calling the action to reverse their decisions and get back to where
00:50we were in the constructive nature of talks.
00:52They declined each time we asked them, and that's why we felt like we had no choice but to call
00:57action, and then we gave them several more opportunities. They didn't move, and that's why we've had a kind of
01:01a quick answer to it again.
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