Power to them, nurses, doctors and healthcare staff in general have been appallingly treated in the last decade with wages and conditions slipping.
Strike.
It’s the only way.
Commenting as an ex nurse because I’m interested in seeing other people’s opinions on this
This is a good thing. They are not just doing this for pay but also to get a safe staffing law passed.
Good on ’em.
I hope they do walkout. I was an out-patient a few weeks ago and the nurses were absolutely bloody fantastic. Undervalued, underpaid and overworked. Successive governments over the last forty plus years have cut pay, cut funding, frozen pay, made redundancies, increased working hours – I am surprised that anyone wants to still work as a nurse and am bloody glad they do.
“Nurses only get paid so and so why should you get a raise”
Hope everyone is gonna be backing this after nurses have been brutally used as an anti union metric
Nurses aren’t earning enough to survive so they either go agency or leave the trade altogether, other people see how nurses are treated and don’t bother training to be one, something needs to change
NHS staff have been shafted so hard over the years I am azed by the dedication so many of them have.
A healthy society is fundamental for prosperity in the long run, until we consider healthcare as the fundamental infrastructure of our nation and not a cost (or an opportunity for profit, in tory terms) we will be bound to the state we’re in.
Please, please vote these cunts out.
There has never been a worse time to be a nurse in the UK. Not only being used as a political football, but wages nowhere near acceptable, insane cost of living, ageing population (where everyone expects to live to their 90s), increasingly demanding shifts, rising patient ratios, massive number of people still absent with covid or ‘long covid’, thousands upon thousands who moved away from bedside nursing or retired completely during the pandemic, and zero organisational will to make the job any easier or less demanding, just ‘suck it up, buttercup, here are your 12 sick patients, your 47 mandatory charts, and your two hour drug round because everyone is sick as fuck. Plenty overtime available, don’t forget that gas bill is coming up!’
We need a serious review into the way our NHS has been left to rack and ruin, at the behest of jobsworths, predatory outside interests, and political interference.
People might complain but nurses are only doing this as a last resort and do so reluctantly. Nurses do not want to provide a poorer quality of care but they also need to eat and deserve to be able to buy a house in the same town they work in. A sense of duty and a love of the job won’t keep a roof over your head.
Up the unions.
No one wants to go on strike everyone loses pay from strike action. It’s gotten to the point where people need to be taking action to get a fair pay rise without having to sacrifice everything we’ve already won.
Supposedly there is a shortage of nurses, but my wife, nurse for 24 years, is expecting to get made redundant at the end of the month when the mass vaccination centre is closed for good.
And the rest of us should support them 100%
From talking to the nurses I know, I wouldn’t do the job even if their salary was doubled.
I hope to god their striking works if it happens. I wanna see our good people in the healthcare industry thrive, not struggle to survive.
As a person dealing with a chronic disease, I appreciate these people very much. I despise this government and desperately want this horror show to end.
Tories applause wasn’t enough for them?
Two years ago Britain were out in the streets applauding the NHS. Now they’re probably going to go on strike because no goverment in the past xx years have paid them a living wage. Absolutely outrageous. (Labour have been just as guilty as the Tories).
So you see your international rivals to the West, technologically superior but with small but increasingly needy populations. Realising you have comparatively plentiful and exploitable labour, you position yourself as the workshop of the world, effectively pricing domestic manufacture out in the countries you sell to.
Once the western economies have become **really** reliant on international trade, and you’re a major single supplier of raw and manufactured goods, you release a new pathogen into the world that collapses said international trade. Then you sit and watch as Western countries rip each other apart as they clamour for the unsustainable quality of life you once facilitated.
Someone is lining their pockets with cash, providing contracts to agencies to do the same work the nurses can do, but can also pay them double and pay them travel and accommodation costs.
Pay the nurses a decent wage, take more on, and you won’t need all the agencies.
Woooooooo go nurses get that bag! You deserve it!
If this is the Summer of Discontent, imagine what it’s going to be like in the winter.
Good for them.
From a financial perspective, I’ve absolutely no idea why anybody chooses to work in a public sector job full stop.
Wife is currently a senior midwife, we’re facing a midwife crisis right now. The level of care they can provide is ridiculous. We need more staff, more incentive to work and more funding.
Otherwise we will see a rise is mortality rates and less women having good birth outcomes.
Good! I’m with them.
It’s unbelievable we can pay people who save our lives a decent wage. We all will need them at some point and most have probably already needed them atleast once in their lives.
The Torys have been gunning for the NHS and won’t stop until its a privatised mess.
Solidarity with the nurses and NHS staff!
We probably all should strike, things are not going to get better under the Tories. Maybe join this movement – https://wesayenough.co.uk/
Doctors are striking early next year. It’s coming fast.
And we have barristers balloting for an all out walk out, no cases whatsoever, which will bring an already failing (4 years for some cases to be heard) justice system to a complete halt – Dominic Raab (scumbag Secretary of State for justice) still hasn’t met with them – this government is absent, negligent, arrogant, malicious and incompetent.
Many of the 660,000 nurses in this country won’t have an appetite for industrial action. Christ I know some that actually vote tory ffs.
The amount of patient facing nursing ‘Good will’ that is milked by hospital managers will continue to go unpaid, unrewarded and unrecognised.
We are among the most powerful work force in the country but have historically lacked a spine to face up to the Tory government. The usual rhetoric is ‘think of the poor patients’.
It’s time to start of ourselves and our families.
How long until another Lucy Letby gets her hands on more children?
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Power to them, nurses, doctors and healthcare staff in general have been appallingly treated in the last decade with wages and conditions slipping.
Strike.
It’s the only way.
Commenting as an ex nurse because I’m interested in seeing other people’s opinions on this
This is a good thing. They are not just doing this for pay but also to get a safe staffing law passed.
Good on ’em.
I hope they do walkout. I was an out-patient a few weeks ago and the nurses were absolutely bloody fantastic. Undervalued, underpaid and overworked. Successive governments over the last forty plus years have cut pay, cut funding, frozen pay, made redundancies, increased working hours – I am surprised that anyone wants to still work as a nurse and am bloody glad they do.
“Nurses only get paid so and so why should you get a raise”
Hope everyone is gonna be backing this after nurses have been brutally used as an anti union metric
Nurses aren’t earning enough to survive so they either go agency or leave the trade altogether, other people see how nurses are treated and don’t bother training to be one, something needs to change
NHS staff have been shafted so hard over the years I am azed by the dedication so many of them have.
A healthy society is fundamental for prosperity in the long run, until we consider healthcare as the fundamental infrastructure of our nation and not a cost (or an opportunity for profit, in tory terms) we will be bound to the state we’re in.
Please, please vote these cunts out.
There has never been a worse time to be a nurse in the UK. Not only being used as a political football, but wages nowhere near acceptable, insane cost of living, ageing population (where everyone expects to live to their 90s), increasingly demanding shifts, rising patient ratios, massive number of people still absent with covid or ‘long covid’, thousands upon thousands who moved away from bedside nursing or retired completely during the pandemic, and zero organisational will to make the job any easier or less demanding, just ‘suck it up, buttercup, here are your 12 sick patients, your 47 mandatory charts, and your two hour drug round because everyone is sick as fuck. Plenty overtime available, don’t forget that gas bill is coming up!’
We need a serious review into the way our NHS has been left to rack and ruin, at the behest of jobsworths, predatory outside interests, and political interference.
People might complain but nurses are only doing this as a last resort and do so reluctantly. Nurses do not want to provide a poorer quality of care but they also need to eat and deserve to be able to buy a house in the same town they work in. A sense of duty and a love of the job won’t keep a roof over your head.
Up the unions.
No one wants to go on strike everyone loses pay from strike action. It’s gotten to the point where people need to be taking action to get a fair pay rise without having to sacrifice everything we’ve already won.
Supposedly there is a shortage of nurses, but my wife, nurse for 24 years, is expecting to get made redundant at the end of the month when the mass vaccination centre is closed for good.
And the rest of us should support them 100%
From talking to the nurses I know, I wouldn’t do the job even if their salary was doubled.
I hope to god their striking works if it happens. I wanna see our good people in the healthcare industry thrive, not struggle to survive.
As a person dealing with a chronic disease, I appreciate these people very much. I despise this government and desperately want this horror show to end.
Tories applause wasn’t enough for them?
Two years ago Britain were out in the streets applauding the NHS. Now they’re probably going to go on strike because no goverment in the past xx years have paid them a living wage. Absolutely outrageous. (Labour have been just as guilty as the Tories).
So you see your international rivals to the West, technologically superior but with small but increasingly needy populations. Realising you have comparatively plentiful and exploitable labour, you position yourself as the workshop of the world, effectively pricing domestic manufacture out in the countries you sell to.
Once the western economies have become **really** reliant on international trade, and you’re a major single supplier of raw and manufactured goods, you release a new pathogen into the world that collapses said international trade. Then you sit and watch as Western countries rip each other apart as they clamour for the unsustainable quality of life you once facilitated.
Someone is lining their pockets with cash, providing contracts to agencies to do the same work the nurses can do, but can also pay them double and pay them travel and accommodation costs.
Pay the nurses a decent wage, take more on, and you won’t need all the agencies.
Woooooooo go nurses get that bag! You deserve it!
If this is the Summer of Discontent, imagine what it’s going to be like in the winter.
Good for them.
From a financial perspective, I’ve absolutely no idea why anybody chooses to work in a public sector job full stop.
Wife is currently a senior midwife, we’re facing a midwife crisis right now. The level of care they can provide is ridiculous. We need more staff, more incentive to work and more funding.
Otherwise we will see a rise is mortality rates and less women having good birth outcomes.
Good! I’m with them.
It’s unbelievable we can pay people who save our lives a decent wage. We all will need them at some point and most have probably already needed them atleast once in their lives.
The Torys have been gunning for the NHS and won’t stop until its a privatised mess.
Solidarity with the nurses and NHS staff!
We probably all should strike, things are not going to get better under the Tories. Maybe join this movement – https://wesayenough.co.uk/
Doctors are striking early next year. It’s coming fast.
And we have barristers balloting for an all out walk out, no cases whatsoever, which will bring an already failing (4 years for some cases to be heard) justice system to a complete halt – Dominic Raab (scumbag Secretary of State for justice) still hasn’t met with them – this government is absent, negligent, arrogant, malicious and incompetent.
Many of the 660,000 nurses in this country won’t have an appetite for industrial action. Christ I know some that actually vote tory ffs.
The amount of patient facing nursing ‘Good will’ that is milked by hospital managers will continue to go unpaid, unrewarded and unrecognised.
We are among the most powerful work force in the country but have historically lacked a spine to face up to the Tory government. The usual rhetoric is ‘think of the poor patients’.
It’s time to start of ourselves and our families.
How long until another Lucy Letby gets her hands on more children?