NHS strike: Unite and GMB unions in NI to walk out over pay

More than 4,000 NHS staff in Northern Ireland are to go on strike over pay later.

Members of the unions, Unite and GMB, are due to walk out on Monday morning.
Urgent and emergency services are not being targeted, unions said. Healthcare workers from across Belfast are to protest at Stormont at 13:00 BST.
Unions want a 1% pay rise to be implemented for all staff, but the NHS has said this will cost too much.
Among those taking strike action in Northern Ireland are office workers, laboratory and pharmacy staff, community nurses and catering staff.
Recommendation Kevin McAdam of Unite said the workers were saying: "Enough is enough".
"We haven't had a pay rise of any substance over the past four or five years," he said.
"In fact, our members reckon their wages have dropped by 15% in real terms over the last four years."
In England, six unions are taking strike action on Monday from 07:00 BST to 11:00 BST.
Those unions have more than 400,000 members in the NHS in England, out of 1.3m staff.
The government has given NHS staff a 1% pay rise, but not for those who get automatic progression-in-the-job rises.
Those increases are given to about half of all staff members and are worth 3% a year on average.
The decision by ministers went against the recommendation of the independent pay review board, which called for an across-the-board rise.
In Scotland, a 1% pay rise was given to everyone, while no decision has been made in Northern Ireland.