STRIKE action is looming from nurses and teachers after Ministers accepted inflation-busting pay recommendations with hikes set to eat into existing budgets.

Millions of public sector workers are give the green light to the pay deals but they are above the 2.8 per cent already budgeted for setting up a collision with unions.

Teachers and doctors in England will be given a 4 per cent rise and other NHS workers will be given a 3.6 per cent hike.

Most members of the armed forces will be handed a 4.5 per cent increase – with senior members of the military 3.75 per cent.

Number 10 previously said that there would be “no additional funding” for pay if the Pay Review Bodies go beyond what departments can afford.

The Unite union called on its members to rebuff any deal on the table to its members having been offered a rise of  3.2 per cent.

Union boss Sharon Graham last month said:  “Yet again, this year’s pay offer fails to tackle low pay for local government workers, who have endured years of below-inflation rises on top of the cost-of-living crisis.”

Daniel Kebede, who is boss of the National Education Union, has said that his organisation is “ready to act industrially” if needed.

The Royal College of Nursing have also said that a 3 per cent rise is unlikely to to help the sector which is in crisis.

Just weeks into coming in to office, Ministers signed off bumper pay deals for train drivers and doctors.