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Stars of TV show Emergency Bikers were among those joining the big NHS strike yesterday.
Motorcycle crews featured in the Channel 5 fly-on-the-wall doc wielded Unison placards as they straddled their bikes alongside colleagues on the picket lines at a control centre in Filton, Bristol.
They were some of the thousands of rapid response and ambulance workers across England who walked out in fury at the government-imposed pay freeze.
Vehicles became display boards for Unison, GMB and Unite as crews lined the gates of their workplaces.
In London and north-west England macho bosses put army and police on standby to scab as ambulance drivers — despite the fact strikers had agreed to attend serious emergencies.
GMB national officer Rehana Azam explained: “Urgent life-threatening calls continued to be responded to during this dispute because unlike the government, front-line emergency staff recognise the value of patient safety and priorities.”
