STRIKING medical secretaries will leave the picket line to march through the streets of a city today.
Walking behind a Unison union banner, more than 130 medical secretaries will parade through Sunderland in their fight for higher pay.
They will march from Sunderland Royal Hospital to Sunderland Eye Infirmary with representatives of other Unison branches in the region.
The strike by secretaries has entered its fourth week with no sign of any end to the deadlock between union and management. Despite losing hundreds of pounds a week in docked pay, the strikers are said to be determined to win their fight.
They could be joined by other secretaries who are being balloted at Darlington Memorial Hospital, Bishop Auckland General Hospital and South Tyneside General Hospital.
Medical secretaries say they earn thousands of pounds less than colleagues elsewhere for doing the same NHS job.
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