Teachers and nurses should get 5.5% pay rise, ministers told

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1. Independent pay review body for literally any public sector job besides MPs: “This is the pay rise we suggest.”

   Govt: “Nah.”

   MPs pay review body: “This is the pay rise we suggest.”

   Govt: “Ooh, yes please.”

2. If the government doesn’t meet these pay rises, it will inevitably be more expensive down the road. Similar to junior doctors, they are facing severe labour shortages (probably exacerbated by visa restrictions as well), and if this continues, the government will rely on agency workers more and more, which is more expensive, and they will need even higher pay rises in the future to attract people back into the sector.

3. 3 billion for Ukraine or for 3 billion to pay the public sector properly. Decisions, decisions.

4. I really don’t understand the Starmer offer on health. Even in the kings speech it looked barren with like 2 bills or something.

   On top of that he barely reserved any cash for it either.

   Is he really going to PFI the waiting lists away ? Either that or magic a solution in the coming months but I really don’t see it

   Investment, workforce planning (including pay and conditions) and social care/community care in general, are the issues I seem to hear about the most working in a hospital.

   The resources we have in the hospital are relatively poor but it’s the community where patients get the worst care, then they end up back in for something preventable and you can’t get them out due to social care being terrible.

   We feel overworked and underfunded. Then we see how bad of a service the patients are getting and how we can barely even get them out of the hospital. It’s honestly just terrible and I’m sure I’m not the only person who’s thinking about leaving because the job has become so stressful and sad.

   All we want is to do the best by our patients but the politicians have decided that they deserve less and should get less, than they actually need.

5. Will they ever stop demanding ..maybe when they all have sports cars

6. So Rachel Reeves wants to commit to 3% for doctors and teachers because of the lack of money yet there is always money to spend on other stuff. How did the tories suddenly have billions to give to their mates in PPE contracts?

   No Rachel, give the public sector decent pay because it has stagnated significantly 🙄

7. Worth noting that for most people in the NHS their pension contributions rose by about 1% last autumn, so this is really more like 4.5% which still doesn’t bring them back to parity with 2021 + inflation