A CABINET minister warned last night: “Vote Labour, get more strikes.”
Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said industrial unrest would worsen under Sir Keir Starmer.
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He plans to hand unions powers to call strikes — and ditch laws under which half their members must back them before they do so.
Ms Atkins said: “They want to make it easier for trade unions to strike.
“They want to remove the safeguards we’ve built up.
“They ensure we maintain that balance between people’s workplace rights but also the rights of the general public to go about their business.
“That means get to work on time, have the trains running, have our NHS working, ensure our public services run.”
She blasted junior doctors’ “cynical” decision to strike from June 27 to July 2 — two days before the Election.
The British Medical Association wants a 35 per cent pay rise.
Its junior doctors committee claimed it had not yet received a “credible offer” in its 20-month dispute.
Ms Atkins spoke as her party revealed plans to free up 20million GP appointments by offering more treatments at pharmacies.
It also aims to build or modernise 250 GP surgeries and build 50 community diagnostic centres.
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