Nurses, healthcare assistants, porters and other members of the NHS workforce have voiced their solidarity with junior doctors over next week's planned strike action.
This includes nurses and paramedics, who currently earn £21,176 a year, and healthcare assistants, porters and maintenance staff, who earn just over £14,000.
A boisterous, noisy picket outside the Edwardian facade of the old Manchester Royal Infirmary has been made up of nursing assistants, porters, paramedics and for the first time in their history midwives.
The assistant Porter Moser ran the team.
For my book Hard Work I rented a council flat (available in a block being renovated) and I took minimum-wage jobs from the jobcentre, when they were plentiful: care home assistant, hospital porter, cake packer, call centre operator, dinner lady and nursery assistant.
Unless they have paid a store assistant or porter to carry their purchases for them, that is.
We would also like to hear from others who are working on strike days – for example, consultants, nurses, healthcare assistants, GPs, porters and administration staff.
Two-thirds of Unison members, which include nurses, healthcare assistants and porters, said they were prepared to take action.
They will join other staff, including nurses, healthcare assistants and porters, in the 13 October walk-out.
The strike - which is part of a row over pay - will begin at 7am, and will involve some nurses, healthcare assistants, and porters.
