98% of BMA ballots returned voted yes for this, that’s 45,000 doctors, for a full withdrawal of care including A&E for 72 hours straight.
This isn’t a minority, this isn’t radicals, we are almost unanimously sick of the pay cuts, shit conditions and complete contempt we’ve been shown by the government and to a lesser degree the general public.
This is only the first one too, if there’s not a complete agreement on the BMA’s demands we’ll just go for longer and longer.
Reminder that ‘junior’ refers to almost every doctor that isn’t a GP or Consultant and can encompass those from day 1 post-graduation to 10+ years. Starting base salary £29,384 for 5+ years of university and the responsibility of people’s lives. Base of £58,398 + OOH enhancements for the most experienced ‘juniors’ who will perform solo surgery, run ICU overnight, take referrals for every admission to hospital from A&E.
I don’t think any junior doctors will be surprised by the result, but 98% really is a statement.
Hopefully this really emphasises to all the dire straits that medicine is in at the moment.
A super majority with an almost unanimous level of support. If the government thinks they can just go on ignoring this I think they are in for a rude awakening.
Shoutout to whatever mod is putting up with me spam messaging that this isn’t a duplicate of the front page and has huge value to everyone not just me and constantly reapproving it, absolute legend haha
26% is actually very reasonable.
I’ve recently gotten to know a doctor from Hong Kong and he has told me that he is taking a >50% pay cut in order to work for the NHS.
Our NHS workers need to be paid more to solve the worker crisis. The question now is how much more tax we should all pay, as a society, to make sure our NHS workers aren’t relying on food banks and eating food scraps from patients to survive.
The country is done. Junior doctors striking finishes off everyone
Good for them, and I hope they are ready for the inevitable “blood on their hands” and “traitors of the NHS” headlines when the Daily Mail find a grieving family to exploit afterwards. Probably from the government too. Because that is going to be the reaction to this.
The pay for junior doctors has been cut 26% since 2007. They need a minimum of 35% increase to just restore the pay. That is all they are asking for, not even a real pay increase.
Before you start saying “doctors already make a good average salary after a few years after uni” doctors are not average people.
If the NHS is too survive they need a pay restoration at minimum, then working conditions must be improved too.
Good for them and good luck to them. 26% is the minimum they should be offered.
Massive tax on the companies who profiteered from the last few years, time the workers who actually kept society going stopped getting pay cuts.
People need to die to see how serious this is. Good on all strikers
Good luck to them. They deserve to be paid in more than just claps.
Goddamn is it refreshing to see some of the public not lap up the bs media narrative
I’ll ask as I’ve asked the nurses.
Where were you and your unions when the cleaning, catering and maintenance staff got their NHS benefits and salaries taken away and a middleman put between their labour and compensation?
Awwwww fuckanory. I’m scheduled for my no-longer-optional C-section on the 15th. 🙁
Gonna talk to my midwife about it later this week… in the meantime I’m gonna go bitch on my Bumpers group about that anus Steve Barclay…
Good. 98% you can’t deny that is the absolute will of the people and as we have seen that is undeniable indivisible and must be done this instant.
Personally think they are selling themselves short at 26% by fuck do they deserve more.
Solidarity to all strikers. Expect the media to come after you with everything they have to please their big buisness paymasters.
Unionize your workplace. If you don’t have a rep volunteer. Keep up the momentum.
Hope the BMA joins other unions on the 15th. Looking like it will be a massive day for the union movement and public servants accross the country.
It’s ridiculous that the government is fighting over 26%, and it’s ridiculous how little doctors are paid in this country.
It’d be reasonable even if they were asking for a 40% rise.
The Tories took just 13 years to flush the NHS down the shitter.
Meanwhile, we have “invisible man” Sunak at the helm, steering the Britanic into a whirlpool while Bunter cunt Boris shuffles around on his gold wallpapered peg leg, Murdoch the parrot on his shoulder, singing a shanty about not knowing how many offspring he has and conning fuckwitted Tory morons into voting for him again come 2024/5.
Have an accident on these days and a consultant will treat you!
Good for instagram and to meet new people.
Worthless to make systemic change.
Your politicians (as well as those in my country) are the representatives of the financial sector. They’re traitors to most of us; they’re the fucking puppets that have been slowly but surely getting more and more money in the hands of hedge funds, banks, etc.
They played the fucking musical chair, going to the private sector to make friends, then going to public sector to make these links “””””fruitful”””””. Rinse and repeat.
But sure, believe your 2-party puppet shitshow ill make significant changes. Keep on believing they’re not both in the pocket of the traitors of the financial market 🙂
Keep on believing that traders, bankers, hedge fund managers do not deserve the treatement that’s been used widely in history : something that links a tree and a rope.
But oh boy, don’t ever go into such violent territory of toughts. I mean, those politicians/lobbiysts never directly hurt you, didn’t they ? They only stole your future, but they didnt’ directly spit on your face; how could they even be the most responsible of this giant shitshow ?
NHS overall has been consistently underserved by this government and previous ones. They are well within their right to strike, conditions and pay are poor for doctors and nurses working in the public health system. I expect they’ll be vilified by certain types of press and parts of the public who are too stupid and selfish to appreciate what is happening behind the scenes in clinics and hospitals across the country.
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98% of BMA ballots returned voted yes for this, that’s 45,000 doctors, for a full withdrawal of care including A&E for 72 hours straight.
This isn’t a minority, this isn’t radicals, we are almost unanimously sick of the pay cuts, shit conditions and complete contempt we’ve been shown by the government and to a lesser degree the general public.
This is only the first one too, if there’s not a complete agreement on the BMA’s demands we’ll just go for longer and longer.
Reminder that ‘junior’ refers to almost every doctor that isn’t a GP or Consultant and can encompass those from day 1 post-graduation to 10+ years. Starting base salary £29,384 for 5+ years of university and the responsibility of people’s lives. Base of £58,398 + OOH enhancements for the most experienced ‘juniors’ who will perform solo surgery, run ICU overnight, take referrals for every admission to hospital from A&E.
I don’t think any junior doctors will be surprised by the result, but 98% really is a statement.
Hopefully this really emphasises to all the dire straits that medicine is in at the moment.
A super majority with an almost unanimous level of support. If the government thinks they can just go on ignoring this I think they are in for a rude awakening.
Shoutout to whatever mod is putting up with me spam messaging that this isn’t a duplicate of the front page and has huge value to everyone not just me and constantly reapproving it, absolute legend haha
26% is actually very reasonable.
I’ve recently gotten to know a doctor from Hong Kong and he has told me that he is taking a >50% pay cut in order to work for the NHS.
Our NHS workers need to be paid more to solve the worker crisis. The question now is how much more tax we should all pay, as a society, to make sure our NHS workers aren’t relying on food banks and eating food scraps from patients to survive.
The country is done. Junior doctors striking finishes off everyone
Good for them, and I hope they are ready for the inevitable “blood on their hands” and “traitors of the NHS” headlines when the Daily Mail find a grieving family to exploit afterwards. Probably from the government too. Because that is going to be the reaction to this.
The pay for junior doctors has been cut 26% since 2007. They need a minimum of 35% increase to just restore the pay. That is all they are asking for, not even a real pay increase.
Before you start saying “doctors already make a good average salary after a few years after uni” doctors are not average people.
If the NHS is too survive they need a pay restoration at minimum, then working conditions must be improved too.
Good for them and good luck to them. 26% is the minimum they should be offered.
Massive tax on the companies who profiteered from the last few years, time the workers who actually kept society going stopped getting pay cuts.
People need to die to see how serious this is. Good on all strikers
Good luck to them. They deserve to be paid in more than just claps.
Goddamn is it refreshing to see some of the public not lap up the bs media narrative
I’ll ask as I’ve asked the nurses.
Where were you and your unions when the cleaning, catering and maintenance staff got their NHS benefits and salaries taken away and a middleman put between their labour and compensation?
Awwwww fuckanory. I’m scheduled for my no-longer-optional C-section on the 15th. 🙁
Gonna talk to my midwife about it later this week… in the meantime I’m gonna go bitch on my Bumpers group about that anus Steve Barclay…
Good. 98% you can’t deny that is the absolute will of the people and as we have seen that is undeniable indivisible and must be done this instant.
Personally think they are selling themselves short at 26% by fuck do they deserve more.
Solidarity to all strikers. Expect the media to come after you with everything they have to please their big buisness paymasters.
Unionize your workplace. If you don’t have a rep volunteer. Keep up the momentum.
Hope the BMA joins other unions on the 15th. Looking like it will be a massive day for the union movement and public servants accross the country.
It’s ridiculous that the government is fighting over 26%, and it’s ridiculous how little doctors are paid in this country.
It’d be reasonable even if they were asking for a 40% rise.
The Tories took just 13 years to flush the NHS down the shitter.
Meanwhile, we have “invisible man” Sunak at the helm, steering the Britanic into a whirlpool while Bunter cunt Boris shuffles around on his gold wallpapered peg leg, Murdoch the parrot on his shoulder, singing a shanty about not knowing how many offspring he has and conning fuckwitted Tory morons into voting for him again come 2024/5.
Have an accident on these days and a consultant will treat you!
Good for instagram and to meet new people.
Worthless to make systemic change.
Your politicians (as well as those in my country) are the representatives of the financial sector. They’re traitors to most of us; they’re the fucking puppets that have been slowly but surely getting more and more money in the hands of hedge funds, banks, etc.
They played the fucking musical chair, going to the private sector to make friends, then going to public sector to make these links “””””fruitful”””””. Rinse and repeat.
But sure, believe your 2-party puppet shitshow ill make significant changes. Keep on believing they’re not both in the pocket of the traitors of the financial market 🙂
Keep on believing that traders, bankers, hedge fund managers do not deserve the treatement that’s been used widely in history : something that links a tree and a rope.
But oh boy, don’t ever go into such violent territory of toughts. I mean, those politicians/lobbiysts never directly hurt you, didn’t they ? They only stole your future, but they didnt’ directly spit on your face; how could they even be the most responsible of this giant shitshow ?
NHS overall has been consistently underserved by this government and previous ones. They are well within their right to strike, conditions and pay are poor for doctors and nurses working in the public health system. I expect they’ll be vilified by certain types of press and parts of the public who are too stupid and selfish to appreciate what is happening behind the scenes in clinics and hospitals across the country.