is responsible for the Health of the nation and should be doing everything and anything to negotiate and prevent these strikes – not playing politics
They’ve all got private health care and are totally out of touch
Is the RCN signalling they would be happy with an amount under 19%?
Tories killing off their own voters this winter…
Such a weird decision from an electoral view
The real disgrace are those who will continue to vote them in
“Why are the peasants striking? We’ve done nothing and we’re all out if ideas.”
They clearly see it as advantageous to their agenda to maintain a narrative that unions are the problem. Any one care to hazard a guess why?
Two fold attack.
1. Not our job to decide it’s an independent body.
2. I still believe they will play the long game with the strikers and attempt to stave them back to work all the while trying to sway the public
Why would the RCN bother to make this offer? Is it because they know the government won’t do it?
It’s clear they want the NHS to completely collapse so they can sell of parts too their mates, under the guise of “saving it”.
The 19% doesn’t seem far off considering how few pay rises nursing staff have received in the past 12 years.
The current situation I compare to writing a long essay with a deadline. If the government had given consistent pay rises over the past 10 years in line with inflation or close to it, the amount requested now would be below 19%, however they instead procrastinated and didn’t write much of the essay until very recently and now they’re stuck writing the remainder on the night before the deadline.
The other thing that confuses me but at the same time is the expectation of the Tories is that the NHS need nurses get more than nurses need them. At this point, my opinion is similar to some others in this thread that this is a play to privatise the NHS further.
Internally the NHS as a whole needs a rework as there is a lot of money wasted and a lot of people in management and above who have got there by the ‘Peter principle’ (I’m aware that some trusts are running better than others).
A raise would be spent by these Nurses and go straight back into the economy, therefore, stimulating the economy. In turn it would stimulate all these small businesses the Government claim to be concerned about.
Don’t fall for the Governments rhetoric. They are only concerned with filling the pockets of themselves, and their rich friends.
It’s great anti-union press, it shows the Tories are ‘strong’ by not caving, and it attempts to paint them as financially responsible. This is an early Christmas present for them.
This is a similar tactic they’ve used with the railway.
The unions and TOC’s mostly agreed deals months ago that were acceptable to both, then the government stepped in and says “you’re not giving them anything.”
Then they go on TV and plead for unions to talk to employers.
That’s because the government *want* the nurses to go on strike. Instant scapegoat to divert attention and blame for the root cause of the state of the service.
This government ignores everyone that does not conform & ignoring the offer to pause the strike action shows to anyone, who is prepared to look, that they have no respect whatsoever for working class people, unless they are friends & family of Ministers. Because they were not elected & are still in government they assume we are all stupid enough to accept that they are doing what is best for the country, this just shows them for the shower of shit that they are. They should be ashamed! Every day that passes they kick the working classes…
Does this cynical, self-enriching, clapped out Tory Govt believe that trying to make nurses responsible for pegging down post-covid inflation is gonna fly this time around? Well it won’t. And do they think if they put their fingers in their ears at the negotiating table this crisis will – ‘poof’ – just disappear? Well it wont!! Why are nurses leaving the profession they once loved in droves? Because they’ve been stripped of their dignity. So, the solution to the crisis lies in plain sight: Restore dignity to nurses; Restore their levels of pay!! NOW!!
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is responsible for the Health of the nation and should be doing everything and anything to negotiate and prevent these strikes – not playing politics
They’ve all got private health care and are totally out of touch
Is the RCN signalling they would be happy with an amount under 19%?
Tories killing off their own voters this winter…
Such a weird decision from an electoral view
The real disgrace are those who will continue to vote them in
“Why are the peasants striking? We’ve done nothing and we’re all out if ideas.”
They clearly see it as advantageous to their agenda to maintain a narrative that unions are the problem. Any one care to hazard a guess why?
Two fold attack.
1. Not our job to decide it’s an independent body.
2. I still believe they will play the long game with the strikers and attempt to stave them back to work all the while trying to sway the public
Why would the RCN bother to make this offer? Is it because they know the government won’t do it?
It’s clear they want the NHS to completely collapse so they can sell of parts too their mates, under the guise of “saving it”.
The 19% doesn’t seem far off considering how few pay rises nursing staff have received in the past 12 years.
The current situation I compare to writing a long essay with a deadline. If the government had given consistent pay rises over the past 10 years in line with inflation or close to it, the amount requested now would be below 19%, however they instead procrastinated and didn’t write much of the essay until very recently and now they’re stuck writing the remainder on the night before the deadline.
The other thing that confuses me but at the same time is the expectation of the Tories is that the NHS need nurses get more than nurses need them. At this point, my opinion is similar to some others in this thread that this is a play to privatise the NHS further.
Internally the NHS as a whole needs a rework as there is a lot of money wasted and a lot of people in management and above who have got there by the ‘Peter principle’ (I’m aware that some trusts are running better than others).
A raise would be spent by these Nurses and go straight back into the economy, therefore, stimulating the economy. In turn it would stimulate all these small businesses the Government claim to be concerned about.
Don’t fall for the Governments rhetoric. They are only concerned with filling the pockets of themselves, and their rich friends.
It’s great anti-union press, it shows the Tories are ‘strong’ by not caving, and it attempts to paint them as financially responsible. This is an early Christmas present for them.
This is a similar tactic they’ve used with the railway.
The unions and TOC’s mostly agreed deals months ago that were acceptable to both, then the government stepped in and says “you’re not giving them anything.”
Then they go on TV and plead for unions to talk to employers.
That’s because the government *want* the nurses to go on strike. Instant scapegoat to divert attention and blame for the root cause of the state of the service.
This government ignores everyone that does not conform & ignoring the offer to pause the strike action shows to anyone, who is prepared to look, that they have no respect whatsoever for working class people, unless they are friends & family of Ministers. Because they were not elected & are still in government they assume we are all stupid enough to accept that they are doing what is best for the country, this just shows them for the shower of shit that they are. They should be ashamed! Every day that passes they kick the working classes…
Does this cynical, self-enriching, clapped out Tory Govt believe that trying to make nurses responsible for pegging down post-covid inflation is gonna fly this time around? Well it won’t. And do they think if they put their fingers in their ears at the negotiating table this crisis will – ‘poof’ – just disappear? Well it wont!! Why are nurses leaving the profession they once loved in droves? Because they’ve been stripped of their dignity. So, the solution to the crisis lies in plain sight: Restore dignity to nurses; Restore their levels of pay!! NOW!!