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GMB staff at the BMA are to strike over pay

Staff at the British Medical Association are to stage their first strike, in a row over pay, it has been announced.

The GMB union said more than 200 of its members at the organisation had backed industrial action by more than 70% in a ballot and will walk out on May 22.

The row is over a performance-related pay system which the union said had been imposed on staff, who advise, support and represent doctors as well as negotiate with the Government on their behalf.

GMB official Dave Kent said: "It is the height of hypocrisy for BMA management to persist with this discredited, demotivating and disastrous pay system."