Nurses to strike for two days before Christmas

23 comments
  1. Good,hit them where it hurts.

    Plenty of money for Zelenskyy the false idol but none for the people you claimed to hold so dear 2 years ago.

    Stick your clapping up your arse and pay them their worth.

  2. “Lives are more important than money!”

    – this sub yapping on about Covid restrictions

    “Money is more important then lives”

    – this sub when nurses strike

  3. Not a bad time to do it really. Hospitals go into overdrive to get patients home for Christmas so people can spend it with families, so this will have less of an impact on patient safety from that perspective.

  4. Can’t wait for the vox pops from people being irrationality angry at nurses even though they are striking for a better service to the public.

  5. I wonder how much support social care workers would get walking out on care homes?

    Most of them are on minimum wage. I used to work in a care home for just over that.

    If nurses are needing food banks care workers are fucked

  6. Good for them. If a strike isn’t disruptive then it’s really just a bunch of people taking time off work at the same time. I truly hope they get a decent pay rise out of this.

  7. Nurses – “we are getting pay cuts due to inflation and we are understaffed”

    Tories – “How about we clap some more?”

  8. I think I’m tired. I read the title as “Nukes to strike for two days before Christmas”.

    To say I was a little alarmed would be an understatement.

  9. Fair play to em. Surprised they’re not descending on Westminster with flaming torches. I’d love to see a gang of ward sisters beat the living shit out of Hancock live on telly.

  10. So 44000 people died in October due to lack of ambulances.

    More vacancies each year due to poor working conditions and having had a 19.7% pay cut since 2010, not including this years inflation, which would take it to over 25%.

    EU nursing migration has gone from 7k nurses a year joining the NMC to 17 last year.

    50% of nursing training places have been shut due to lack of uptake and that they stopped the bursary and no tuition fees for 3 years.

    Lack of any prosecutions against the attacks and violence towards all care staff.

    Australia, US etc paying 50% more, resulting in 6k+ nurses emigrating in order to secure reasonable pay.

    No social care worth the name, resulting in the NHS covering social care issues due to Duty of Care, further watering down services offered.

    Same budgets agreed, despite population increases. My Trust is given the same budget, Inc inflation, as they did in 2008, despite the population has increased by 30%, meaning there is currently a 2.5 year wait for psychology. If you require a voluntary inpatient admission, it can take up to 6 weeks. Suicide rate has doubled in 18 months.

    Oh yeah its all great.

  11. The nurses going on strike, will anyone notice. The nhs is in such dire straits now. It’s no longer a world class service. You could end up waiting in A&E a bit longer, because it’s so fast and efficient now.

  12. I support our NHS
    We just had a baby on Tuesday on a chronically understaffed maternity wing and the midwives were amazing.

    Give them an inflation busting pay rise and hire more staff!!!

  13. It wont work, its a baby strike. The government wont even blink, and the MPs are just focusing on how to spend their budget on their christmas party, while doctors and nurses are working their ass off on the christmas day.

    If they want it to work, indefinite strike with no mercy.

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