Find the fucking money, Government. Weren’t we all clapping and praising the “heroes” only a year ago? Shameful how so much of the rhetoric around the strikes at the moment is framing these people as public enemy no1.
Lol government talks about the train companies in the 3rd person as if it’s not them.
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Absolute shitheels on Radio 2 phoning to complain about the nurses striking. The arguments are absolutely pathetic. One guy said police deserve a pay rise more because it’s a more dangerous job.
Honestly, if you clapped and don’t support this strike, go and walk into the sea – we don’t want you here.
Did the gentleman who moved to London from abroad to work as a paramedic and study a full time Masters simultaneously think he was going to be able to enjoy a cosy 9-5 work life balance?
Unions should vet who speaks to the papers during these strikes.
It strikes me that the people who were key workers during the pandemic, you know the people who keep the country running, are the very ones who are on strike now asking for a pay rise who the government are ignoring.
“Pick your branch and take your chance. And, if you don’t like it, then leave and find something else to do.” as we used to say in the Royal Navy.
I used to work long hours for rubbish pay myself. Now, I do relatively very little and get paid handsomely for it.
One of my friends is a police officer and we was just having a general chat and work hours came up.
The Police have to have a minimum level of staff on duty but he said they cannot even book holidays and the only way the minimum staff level can be attained is by officers being called in to do overtime.
What else was interesting he was one of the more experienced officers but he has only been in the force for 8 years, some of that as a special.
The rest are newcomers.
I’m sure someone a bit older than me will remember better but… isn’t this exactly what the Tories did last time? Like, I remember there being loads of stuff in the papers at the time about nurses’ pay being ridiculously low.
I love how the government are mulling preventing them from striking when they could easily do that by paying them a living wage!
Well Boris reckoned we sent £350 million a week to Europe. Now we’re out of the EU maybe we could use some of that totally real and not made up to make Mail readers froth at the mouth money to fund the NHS like he said. (Srsly though when you think about it it’s literally the exact same demographic of voters that voted FOR Brexit on the basis that the government would fund the NHS that are now getting furiously angry that the NHS has the incredulity to want to be funded, it’s almost like they’re stupid or something.)
Why work 90 hours a week?
Just say no… when your shift ends, clock out, and what happens happens… If they’re clearly short staffed, not going to fire you…
Glad they’re learning to stand up for themselves via strikes, but you have to learn to put boundaries between you and your boss
All our medical and health care staff should be paid a decent and liveable wage. The demand on the health service continues to grow and some of it is down to people who use the NHS unnecessarily. If people took serious responsibility and led healthier lives, use the stuff between their ears called common sense and a brain, stop smoking, drinking excessively (which leads to all sorts of consequences – some of which lead to death), drug taking, leading risky criminal lives, etc, AND the population shrank, then the pressures on the NHS would subside. I’d triple people’s NI if they smoked, drank, took illegal harmful drugs, played risky sports and activities, etc, and force them to take out private health insurance to pay for private health care or put towards the NHS.
What’s the legal limit?
Right, so can I assume they’re doing 50 hours overtime a week?
I’ll also assume they can if they so desire opt out if doing that amount of overtime.
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Find the fucking money, Government. Weren’t we all clapping and praising the “heroes” only a year ago? Shameful how so much of the rhetoric around the strikes at the moment is framing these people as public enemy no1.
Lol government talks about the train companies in the 3rd person as if it’s not them.
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Absolute shitheels on Radio 2 phoning to complain about the nurses striking. The arguments are absolutely pathetic. One guy said police deserve a pay rise more because it’s a more dangerous job.
Honestly, if you clapped and don’t support this strike, go and walk into the sea – we don’t want you here.
Did the gentleman who moved to London from abroad to work as a paramedic and study a full time Masters simultaneously think he was going to be able to enjoy a cosy 9-5 work life balance?
Unions should vet who speaks to the papers during these strikes.
It strikes me that the people who were key workers during the pandemic, you know the people who keep the country running, are the very ones who are on strike now asking for a pay rise who the government are ignoring.
“Pick your branch and take your chance. And, if you don’t like it, then leave and find something else to do.” as we used to say in the Royal Navy.
I used to work long hours for rubbish pay myself. Now, I do relatively very little and get paid handsomely for it.
One of my friends is a police officer and we was just having a general chat and work hours came up.
The Police have to have a minimum level of staff on duty but he said they cannot even book holidays and the only way the minimum staff level can be attained is by officers being called in to do overtime.
What else was interesting he was one of the more experienced officers but he has only been in the force for 8 years, some of that as a special.
The rest are newcomers.
I’m sure someone a bit older than me will remember better but… isn’t this exactly what the Tories did last time? Like, I remember there being loads of stuff in the papers at the time about nurses’ pay being ridiculously low.
I love how the government are mulling preventing them from striking when they could easily do that by paying them a living wage!
Well Boris reckoned we sent £350 million a week to Europe. Now we’re out of the EU maybe we could use some of that totally real and not made up to make Mail readers froth at the mouth money to fund the NHS like he said. (Srsly though when you think about it it’s literally the exact same demographic of voters that voted FOR Brexit on the basis that the government would fund the NHS that are now getting furiously angry that the NHS has the incredulity to want to be funded, it’s almost like they’re stupid or something.)
Why work 90 hours a week?
Just say no… when your shift ends, clock out, and what happens happens… If they’re clearly short staffed, not going to fire you…
Glad they’re learning to stand up for themselves via strikes, but you have to learn to put boundaries between you and your boss
All our medical and health care staff should be paid a decent and liveable wage. The demand on the health service continues to grow and some of it is down to people who use the NHS unnecessarily. If people took serious responsibility and led healthier lives, use the stuff between their ears called common sense and a brain, stop smoking, drinking excessively (which leads to all sorts of consequences – some of which lead to death), drug taking, leading risky criminal lives, etc, AND the population shrank, then the pressures on the NHS would subside. I’d triple people’s NI if they smoked, drank, took illegal harmful drugs, played risky sports and activities, etc, and force them to take out private health insurance to pay for private health care or put towards the NHS.
What’s the legal limit?
Right, so can I assume they’re doing 50 hours overtime a week?
I’ll also assume they can if they so desire opt out if doing that amount of overtime.