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Reminder – Rest Period and Shift Overrun ballot

GMB Scotland in Scottish Ambulance Service

Rest Break and Shift Overruns – Ballot

GMB and our sister unions have been in negotiations regarding your dispute over rest break non-compliance.

These negotiations have taken much longer than they should have done and have been hard fought by your representatives.

However, we are now at a point where we believe we have achieved all we can through negotiation and have two Test of Change documents for you to vote on.

You can see the Test of Change SOPs below.

There is a joint trade union question and answer document that you can read here – https://bit.ly/4dELcmQ

As we have reached the end of negotiations on these matters, if GMB members decided not to accept either document we would need to move to industrial action ballot.

Your ballot will close on Tuesday 7 April at midday.

Keir Greenaway

GMB Scotland Senior Organiser – Public Services

Posted: 2nd April 2026

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