This is the result of a Tory mismanagement. Why do people think they are responsible at all?
The absolute backlash I saw on twitter to this announcement was staggering. Like what in the hell do people think ambulance workers make or the conditions they work in? “Uhhhuu thought they were already on strike since it took them 4 hours to arrive for my son who fell off the sofa”.
I work security in a tower block, have to call an ambulance every two weeks or so and these poor people are fucking drained of all life sometimes. Unfortunately the only way things will change is through actions like this.
The concierge in my building who sit there to let visitors in and help tenants who’ve lost their keys get paid more than ambulance workers. It’s insane.
Nurses, ambulance drivers, call handlers.
They can claim people won’t die all the like no way this won’t cause increased deaths.
I don’t even know what to think anymore other than every single person on minimum wage should walk out.
If ever I see/hear a “what job is seriously underpaid” conversation, my first thought is always paramedics. Between the working conditions, the skills and qualifications needed and the general stress of running about non stop trying to save peoples lives and consoling grieving family, paramedics ought to be earning no less than specialist doctors IMO.
I have so much respect for the ambulance crews here, I’m with them all the way and they’ll always have my full support.
Remember everyone, there isn’t enough money to pay these 10,000+ people properly. There is money to give 12,000,000 pensioners a 10% rise though.
The government does not care about the country at all, they only care about doing what they need to in order to stay in power.
My local service is on here. We’ve needed their help 4 times in the last year, and I am behind them every step of the way, even if we’re a bit nervous.
The ambulance service is the glue that holds the NHS together.
I really didn’t want to vote yes. Our ambulances are rarely ready when I start my shift. Half the time we are missing vital equipment. I struggle to keep my family afloat unless I do a lot of overtime (and then lose out on spending time with my kids). I’m constantly apologising to patients for how long they’ve waited. I get verbally and physically abused regularly and yet I could get paid more working in nearly any other sector.
“Ambulances take hours to turn up” yes because we are incredibly underfunded and understaffed. I’m fucking done with people having a go at the ambulance service when every other paramedic and tech I know work so hard. We see the worst possible things on nearly a daily basis and we still have to put up with people complaining constantly as if it’s our fault?
I love my job, I want to help people. I want to save lives but change needs to happen. The blame rests not on the shoulders of the paramedics who visit you. The blame is on the incompetence of people not even elected into power. Don’t go bitching and moaning that it’s our fault because it’s not. We need change, you need change.
When I joined the service the only way to get on frontline/999 work was ‘dead man’s shoes – retirement’, people stayed in as long as they could as it was a great job, all training was in house and you were paid for it, now if you want to be a paramedic 90% of the time you’ll need to go to university for 3years and pay £27,000. These days you’ll be hard pressed to find someone starting now and staying on frontline till they retire, many leave a couple of years after they qualify and work in other related fields (GP surgerys etc) for better pay, conditions and work life balance, they are burnt out because of the constant stress and lack of support from the trust’s and the abuse from the public that use the service as a traveling GP service – not blaming the GP’s, it’s another symptom of the lack of support from the government towards the NHS
Think how dire it must be for ambulance workers to strike.
The wait times I had for an ambulance recently was 3-7 hours which is awful, but it’s also means they aren’t getting the help they need and should strike. I back them wholeheartidely.
The NHS was held together by good will. That is no longer enough and staff are telling the government and electorate that by striking. You cannot expect people to work for the love of the job when they can no longer put food on the table or afford to rent where you work. If the public loves the NHS as much as it claims then it needs to stand with its workers when they demand better conditions to be able to do their job safely.
Shitty, underpaid job. Constantly dealing with crank calls and time wasters. Serious shortage. I don’t blame them for wanting a pay rise. Paramedics have to put up with a lot and they get paid next to nothing.
Amazing stuff. Fight for your conditions. Fighting for your future and the future of the service.
Genuine Heroes.
A 4% pay offer is offensive for anyone in that job. People will not join, and people will leave the job. It would have killed the ambulance service as we know it in the long run.
Am an EMT equivalent (for Murricans) in the UK.
From the moment of “leaving” your house to getting another “go here to this address”, the average time was 40 seconds.
Its insanely busy, and 90% of the people we go to either
a) don’t actually require an ambulance and could take themselves
Or
b) could have been dealt with by a GP
Good. Funny how every public service is having too strike under a Tory government. Definitely shows the Tories have got everything wrong.
The government always find money to drop bombs on people.
They’re still going to respond to life threatening emergencies. Just not all the other stuff.
Strikers are trying to protect and improve our public services. They are the ones literally on the picket lines fighting for what we have allowed to be eroded after 12 years of Tory bullshit.
Support them or shut up. I’m sick of hearing miserable sods complain about strikes. What are you doing to improve your country? What are you doing to serve your local community? What are you doing to help improve the lives of your fellow citizens?
Nothing like just letting people die so you can pretend you’re special and demand a more comfy salary at a time when *everyone* is facing a cost of living crisis. Fucking losers.
Sack them all and hire Polish workers to do it or something. Someone who isn’t so entitled and is actually willing to work for a living.
I mean, at least you’re saving lives (though clearly the motivation is not to help people, it’s just to be paid more than everyone else) so probably deserve a little more but throwing innocent people under the bus is a shitty way to negotiate. Postal and rail workers? Not that special. We ALL have our part to play in society but do you see us all refusing to work and causing chaos? No. We acknowledge times are hard and that we’re not entitled to immunity from it, and are grateful to have a job.
the workers of the NHS just want to help people, and when their last resort is to strike, you know the system is completely fucked.
thank you tories, for all you’ve fucked up.
I have dealt with paramedics a lot lately due to my mother being sick,it’s been the only thing that gave me any feeling of it was going to be ok when these two amazing professionals turned up, made my mother feel not only relaxed in a stressful and anxious time for her but made me feel confident that there was still some amazing caring people working in the nhs still. I am fully behind paramedics/nurses strikes and feel that it is criminal to put more stress on these amazing people. The last thing any worker who is literally keeping the country alive should be worrying about is putting food on there own table.
Hopefully they get a good pay rise, they deserve it
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This is the result of a Tory mismanagement. Why do people think they are responsible at all?
The absolute backlash I saw on twitter to this announcement was staggering. Like what in the hell do people think ambulance workers make or the conditions they work in? “Uhhhuu thought they were already on strike since it took them 4 hours to arrive for my son who fell off the sofa”.
I work security in a tower block, have to call an ambulance every two weeks or so and these poor people are fucking drained of all life sometimes. Unfortunately the only way things will change is through actions like this.
The concierge in my building who sit there to let visitors in and help tenants who’ve lost their keys get paid more than ambulance workers. It’s insane.
Nurses, ambulance drivers, call handlers.
They can claim people won’t die all the like no way this won’t cause increased deaths.
I don’t even know what to think anymore other than every single person on minimum wage should walk out.
If ever I see/hear a “what job is seriously underpaid” conversation, my first thought is always paramedics. Between the working conditions, the skills and qualifications needed and the general stress of running about non stop trying to save peoples lives and consoling grieving family, paramedics ought to be earning no less than specialist doctors IMO.
I have so much respect for the ambulance crews here, I’m with them all the way and they’ll always have my full support.
Remember everyone, there isn’t enough money to pay these 10,000+ people properly. There is money to give 12,000,000 pensioners a 10% rise though.
The government does not care about the country at all, they only care about doing what they need to in order to stay in power.
My local service is on here. We’ve needed their help 4 times in the last year, and I am behind them every step of the way, even if we’re a bit nervous.
The ambulance service is the glue that holds the NHS together.
I really didn’t want to vote yes. Our ambulances are rarely ready when I start my shift. Half the time we are missing vital equipment. I struggle to keep my family afloat unless I do a lot of overtime (and then lose out on spending time with my kids). I’m constantly apologising to patients for how long they’ve waited. I get verbally and physically abused regularly and yet I could get paid more working in nearly any other sector.
“Ambulances take hours to turn up” yes because we are incredibly underfunded and understaffed. I’m fucking done with people having a go at the ambulance service when every other paramedic and tech I know work so hard. We see the worst possible things on nearly a daily basis and we still have to put up with people complaining constantly as if it’s our fault?
I love my job, I want to help people. I want to save lives but change needs to happen. The blame rests not on the shoulders of the paramedics who visit you. The blame is on the incompetence of people not even elected into power. Don’t go bitching and moaning that it’s our fault because it’s not. We need change, you need change.
When I joined the service the only way to get on frontline/999 work was ‘dead man’s shoes – retirement’, people stayed in as long as they could as it was a great job, all training was in house and you were paid for it, now if you want to be a paramedic 90% of the time you’ll need to go to university for 3years and pay £27,000. These days you’ll be hard pressed to find someone starting now and staying on frontline till they retire, many leave a couple of years after they qualify and work in other related fields (GP surgerys etc) for better pay, conditions and work life balance, they are burnt out because of the constant stress and lack of support from the trust’s and the abuse from the public that use the service as a traveling GP service – not blaming the GP’s, it’s another symptom of the lack of support from the government towards the NHS
Think how dire it must be for ambulance workers to strike.
The wait times I had for an ambulance recently was 3-7 hours which is awful, but it’s also means they aren’t getting the help they need and should strike. I back them wholeheartidely.
The NHS was held together by good will. That is no longer enough and staff are telling the government and electorate that by striking. You cannot expect people to work for the love of the job when they can no longer put food on the table or afford to rent where you work. If the public loves the NHS as much as it claims then it needs to stand with its workers when they demand better conditions to be able to do their job safely.
Shitty, underpaid job. Constantly dealing with crank calls and time wasters. Serious shortage. I don’t blame them for wanting a pay rise. Paramedics have to put up with a lot and they get paid next to nothing.
Amazing stuff. Fight for your conditions. Fighting for your future and the future of the service.
Genuine Heroes.
A 4% pay offer is offensive for anyone in that job. People will not join, and people will leave the job. It would have killed the ambulance service as we know it in the long run.
Am an EMT equivalent (for Murricans) in the UK.
From the moment of “leaving” your house to getting another “go here to this address”, the average time was 40 seconds.
Its insanely busy, and 90% of the people we go to either
a) don’t actually require an ambulance and could take themselves
Or
b) could have been dealt with by a GP
Good. Funny how every public service is having too strike under a Tory government. Definitely shows the Tories have got everything wrong.
The government always find money to drop bombs on people.
They’re still going to respond to life threatening emergencies. Just not all the other stuff.
Strikers are trying to protect and improve our public services. They are the ones literally on the picket lines fighting for what we have allowed to be eroded after 12 years of Tory bullshit.
Support them or shut up. I’m sick of hearing miserable sods complain about strikes. What are you doing to improve your country? What are you doing to serve your local community? What are you doing to help improve the lives of your fellow citizens?
Nothing like just letting people die so you can pretend you’re special and demand a more comfy salary at a time when *everyone* is facing a cost of living crisis. Fucking losers.
Sack them all and hire Polish workers to do it or something. Someone who isn’t so entitled and is actually willing to work for a living.
I mean, at least you’re saving lives (though clearly the motivation is not to help people, it’s just to be paid more than everyone else) so probably deserve a little more but throwing innocent people under the bus is a shitty way to negotiate. Postal and rail workers? Not that special. We ALL have our part to play in society but do you see us all refusing to work and causing chaos? No. We acknowledge times are hard and that we’re not entitled to immunity from it, and are grateful to have a job.
the workers of the NHS just want to help people, and when their last resort is to strike, you know the system is completely fucked.
thank you tories, for all you’ve fucked up.
I have dealt with paramedics a lot lately due to my mother being sick,it’s been the only thing that gave me any feeling of it was going to be ok when these two amazing professionals turned up, made my mother feel not only relaxed in a stressful and anxious time for her but made me feel confident that there was still some amazing caring people working in the nhs still. I am fully behind paramedics/nurses strikes and feel that it is criminal to put more stress on these amazing people. The last thing any worker who is literally keeping the country alive should be worrying about is putting food on there own table.
Hopefully they get a good pay rise, they deserve it