Junior doctors in England to be reballotted over strike action

The BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee for England has announced that it will reballot its members for another six months of industrial action.For the first time, junior doctors in England will also be asked to approve “action short of a strike” as part of the mandate for action. This encompasses any other industrial action taken to put pressure on the employer in a trade dispute but that does not amount to strike action. Examples might include working to rule or not working overtime.The committee said that this additional option would preserve junior doctors’ ability to take industrial action despite the government’s new antistrike laws that it recently introduced in the Minimum Service Level Act. The act allows employers to demand that staff return to work to meet minimum service levels, with which unions and workers have to comply or face being sued or dismissed.The committee’s current mandate for action expires at…
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