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Furious health workers in England are readying themselves for industrial action as more unions ballot over the Tories’ meagre 3 percent pay rise.

Thousands of health ­workers received online ballot papers this week asking them if they are ­prepared to take industrial action over pay.

Around 200 health workers and their supporters joined a march to Downing Street on Friday to protest against the Tory pay insult.

Unions reacted furiously to the Tories’ measly 3 percent pay offer

The Tories wants to cut NHS workers pay. They rushed out a 3 percent pay offer to health workers in England on Wednesday after a day of shambles and chaos.

In a toxic mix of insult and shambles, the Tories scrapped an expected announcement on NHS pay on Wednesday.

The Tories have delivered another blow to NHS workers. Now workers’ fury has to be turned into action for a 15 percent rise.

Top drug companies have been found guilty of increasing the price of a life-saving steroid treatment by more than 10,000 per cent and ­paying rivals to stay out of the market.

More than a million children of key workers are living in poverty, according to research commissioned by the TUC union federation.

The government has introduced a new Health and Care Bill into parliament as Covid-19 cases soar.

A sharp rise in the number of patients with coronavirus being admitted to hospital is already causing chaos in the NHS. And far worse could be coming as the Tories lift all virus restrictions.

The People Before Profit group launched an updated Covid emergency programme to defend workers rights—and a call to action—in an online rally on Tuesday.