Strikes are serious in Yorkshire

… as UNISON head of health Sara Gorton knows, but there is also always time for a laugh

Sara Gorton with pickets in Wakefield

In the third day of strike action in the NHS, UNISON members working for the ambulance service at Rotherham Hospital in South Yorkshire took to the picket lines, while the union’s head of health, Sara Gorton, joined the picket at Wakefield, where she fielded questions from the media.

Photographer Mark Pinder took his camera along.

Pickets with flags in Rotherham

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire and Sara Gorton. Sheffield/Crowder Road ambulance station. Monday 23rd January 2023. Photo © Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com www.markpinder.net

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire and Sara Gorton. Sheffield/Crowder Road ambulance station. Monday 23rd January 2023. Photo © Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com www.markpinder.net

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire and Sara Gorton. Sheffield/Crowder Road ambulance station. Monday 23rd January 2023. Photo © Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com www.markpinder.net

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire and Sara Gorton. Sheffield/Crowder Road ambulance station. Monday 23rd January 2023. Photo © Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com www.markpinder.net

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire and Sara Gorton. Sheffield/Crowder Road ambulance station. Monday 23rd January 2023. Photo © Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com www.markpinder.net

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire and Sara Gorton. Sheffield/Crowder Road ambulance station. Monday 23rd January 2023. Photo © Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com www.markpinder.net

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire and Sara Gorton. Sheffield/Crowder Road ambulance station. Monday 23rd January 2023. Photo © Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com www.markpinder.net

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire and Sara Gorton. Sheffield/Crowder Road ambulance station. Monday 23rd January 2023. Photo © Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com www.markpinder.net

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire and Sara Gorton. Sheffield/Crowder Road ambulance station. Monday 23rd January 2023. Photo © Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com www.markpinder.net

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire and Sara Gorton. Sheffield/Crowder Road ambulance station. Monday 23rd January 2023. Photo © Mark Pinder +44 (0)7768 211174 pinder.photo@gmail.com www.markpinder.net

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire Wakefield picket. Monday 23rd January 2023.

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire Wakefield picket. Monday 23rd January 2023. with Sara Gorton

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire Wakefield picket. Monday 23rd January 2023. with Sara Gorton

Unison ambulance workers strike in South Yorkshire Wakefield picket. Monday 23rd January 2023.