The head of Unison has urged NHS staff to ‘keep on fighting’ after six different unions in Manchester took part in the first nationwide health service walkout for 32 years.

NHS workers will stage a four-hour strike on Monday October 13, confirmed Unison, in a row over pay.

Marchers, brought together by Unison, will assemble at Castlefield Arena on Liverpool Road at 11am tomorrow to protest against austerity

Angry trade union members gathered together for today’s strike in Piccadilly Gardens, claiming that ‘money is there, just in the wrong places’.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), is a transatlantic agreement between the US and Europe that detractors say could have a catastrophic impact on the UK economy

Mental health services are facing proposed £650,000-worth of cuts

Unison have threatened to ballot for industrial action

Protest took place as Conservative Party Conference started

The findings came after an FOI by MM

Arriva won the contract for patient transport from the NHS