“Successive Tory governments have repeatedly cut public sector pay in real terms. For example, the then-coalition government froze pay in 2010 for two years. Then, it imposed years of real-terms cuts by freezing pay rises at 1%. As the TUC noted, the end result is that the Tories – for the NHS, compared to 2010 – have cut:
£4,300 from nurses’ pay.
£5,600 from paramedics’ pay
£1,300 from porters’ pay.
£3,200 from maternity care assistants’ pay.
It’s a similar story in education, where the Tories have wiped 25% off teachers’ pay since 2010. However, this year has been particularly brutal. The Tories have capped NHS pay rises at 4% for most staff, while inflation is over 10%. The TUC noted that this means the Tories have cut £1,100 off nurses’ pay and £1,500 off paramedics’ pay. So, workers have had enough.”
Potential???
It’s well underway, me and the SO have both left, trained for years to get there but cannot afford to stop.
neither of us wanted to but no choice.
Left my job in public sector earlier this year and landed a 25% payrise for the same role. Have since heard that another 8 people have left (in an office of ~40).
I think at this point in time it’s safe enough to use the past tense, no?
“The Tories have caused a potential ‘exodus’ of public sector workers”
Left public for private this year. 35%/£11k more, and an hour less per week.
I loved my civil service job, great people, awesome engineering challenges. However in 5 years my pay has stagnated to basically nothing each year. It was unsustainable to stay any longer. Engineers were leaving at a steadily increasing rate with no replacements coming in, meaning those that were left were just working multiple jobs.
“Hence we have proven, Government does indeed not work properly.Best to privatize all the things, surely.” – Tories.
London paramedic with 12 years of experience in the job here, ready to “go back to where I came from” in the new year because f**k this.
Dude, the amount of nurses/ care assistants who I’ve heard say “why do I need this shit if I can be stacking shelves at lidls for similar money” is increasing each day. I’m one of those people. Tories don’t realise that they can’t just make NHS private when MILLIONS of people relied on this service for so long
Emergency services here – 20 years service. I have received 2 job offers from private sector in the past 12 months which would equal 25-40% pay rises. If I looked for it I could get much more than that.
I will be leaving public sector in the NY. I don’t want too, but can’t afford to not do so.
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“Successive Tory governments have repeatedly cut public sector pay in real terms. For example, the then-coalition government froze pay in 2010 for two years. Then, it imposed years of real-terms cuts by freezing pay rises at 1%. As the TUC noted, the end result is that the Tories – for the NHS, compared to 2010 – have cut:
£4,300 from nurses’ pay.
£5,600 from paramedics’ pay
£1,300 from porters’ pay.
£3,200 from maternity care assistants’ pay.
It’s a similar story in education, where the Tories have wiped 25% off teachers’ pay since 2010. However, this year has been particularly brutal. The Tories have capped NHS pay rises at 4% for most staff, while inflation is over 10%. The TUC noted that this means the Tories have cut £1,100 off nurses’ pay and £1,500 off paramedics’ pay. So, workers have had enough.”
Potential???
It’s well underway, me and the SO have both left, trained for years to get there but cannot afford to stop.
neither of us wanted to but no choice.
Left my job in public sector earlier this year and landed a 25% payrise for the same role. Have since heard that another 8 people have left (in an office of ~40).
I think at this point in time it’s safe enough to use the past tense, no?
“The Tories have caused a potential ‘exodus’ of public sector workers”
Left public for private this year. 35%/£11k more, and an hour less per week.
I loved my civil service job, great people, awesome engineering challenges. However in 5 years my pay has stagnated to basically nothing each year. It was unsustainable to stay any longer. Engineers were leaving at a steadily increasing rate with no replacements coming in, meaning those that were left were just working multiple jobs.
“Hence we have proven, Government does indeed not work properly.Best to privatize all the things, surely.” – Tories.
London paramedic with 12 years of experience in the job here, ready to “go back to where I came from” in the new year because f**k this.
Dude, the amount of nurses/ care assistants who I’ve heard say “why do I need this shit if I can be stacking shelves at lidls for similar money” is increasing each day. I’m one of those people. Tories don’t realise that they can’t just make NHS private when MILLIONS of people relied on this service for so long
Emergency services here – 20 years service. I have received 2 job offers from private sector in the past 12 months which would equal 25-40% pay rises. If I looked for it I could get much more than that.
I will be leaving public sector in the NY. I don’t want too, but can’t afford to not do so.