>The ballot of training-grade doctors…..employed by NHS trusts in England in January saw 97.48% vote in favour of striking, from a 74.76% turnout
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>Announcing a walkout on Wednesday 15 March, HCSA president Dr Naru Narayanan said: “Junior doctors have held together patient care amid a spiralling staffing crisis.
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>In return for this huge emotional, mental and physical toll they’ve been subjected to a decade of real-terms pay cuts totalling over 26%. Enough is enough.
This isn’t even the main one, this is the smaller union. The BMA ballot ends in about 10 minutes and results announced later today. That’ll be around 70,000 striking in March, currently announced a 72 hour full withdrawal of service if the ballot passes.
Absolutely delighted with the turnout, and the 98% yes vote.
Enough is enough, doctors are not worth 26% less than we were in 2008. I am one of the most senior and experienced “junior” doctors in the country (18 years of training) and regardless of what happens I will be leaving the UK and not taking up a consultant post here.
I sacrificed my entire youth to get to this point, from my straight A*s at GCSE and A-Level through to medical school, distinctions, publications, working like a dog throughout my dual specialist training in anaesthesia and intensive care, working in the most horrific conditions day and night during COVID…and for what? To get paid the same as my mates started on at age 23 in other sectors.
No thank you, I’ll be taking a job abroad for 5x the pay that any consultant job in the UK would pay me. But this strike action is absolutely vital to ensure that future generations of doctors stay in the UK, and at least partially reduce the massive haemorrhage and exodus of talent.
> Currently, the basic starting salary for a junior doctor is £29,000, but once extra payments for things like unsociable hours is taken into account average earnings exceed £40,000.
This is a complete joke btw, unsociable hours doesn’t include Saturday or until 9pm during the week. It’s also only an extra 30% of your regular pay (£14 an hour) and literally anyone can inflate their salary like this.
I can make 100k a year working uber if I just never stop driving. Doesn’t mean it’s an amazing salary.
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.
Tory misrule.
After covid, these people risked thier lives to get us through, and the reward is a real world pay cut. Its totally wrong they deserve a proper payrise. Its easy to get the money to cover it too, just tax the people at the top end who pay less tax than pretty much everybody else due to all the workarounds.
That’s our thing, the last resort before things get really bad, uh.
No peaceful manifestations will change anything. It’s good for instagram and to meet new people, but that’s it.
Despite what some people think, you cannot rely on people like doctors working on good will alone forever. As with teachers and nurses, real-terms pay cuts and poor working conditions are driving people away because you can only put up with so much before your selflessness is pushed to its limit. It’s like how clapping did not make up for the sheer hell the NHS went through with COVID. It should not be hard to understand but many seem to want to ignore this fact.
Why are they protesting with dummies in their mouths?
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>The ballot of training-grade doctors…..employed by NHS trusts in England in January saw 97.48% vote in favour of striking, from a 74.76% turnout
>
>Announcing a walkout on Wednesday 15 March, HCSA president Dr Naru Narayanan said: “Junior doctors have held together patient care amid a spiralling staffing crisis.
>
>In return for this huge emotional, mental and physical toll they’ve been subjected to a decade of real-terms pay cuts totalling over 26%. Enough is enough.
This isn’t even the main one, this is the smaller union. The BMA ballot ends in about 10 minutes and results announced later today. That’ll be around 70,000 striking in March, currently announced a 72 hour full withdrawal of service if the ballot passes.
Absolutely delighted with the turnout, and the 98% yes vote.
Enough is enough, doctors are not worth 26% less than we were in 2008. I am one of the most senior and experienced “junior” doctors in the country (18 years of training) and regardless of what happens I will be leaving the UK and not taking up a consultant post here.
I sacrificed my entire youth to get to this point, from my straight A*s at GCSE and A-Level through to medical school, distinctions, publications, working like a dog throughout my dual specialist training in anaesthesia and intensive care, working in the most horrific conditions day and night during COVID…and for what? To get paid the same as my mates started on at age 23 in other sectors.
No thank you, I’ll be taking a job abroad for 5x the pay that any consultant job in the UK would pay me. But this strike action is absolutely vital to ensure that future generations of doctors stay in the UK, and at least partially reduce the massive haemorrhage and exodus of talent.
> Currently, the basic starting salary for a junior doctor is £29,000, but once extra payments for things like unsociable hours is taken into account average earnings exceed £40,000.
This is a complete joke btw, unsociable hours doesn’t include Saturday or until 9pm during the week. It’s also only an extra 30% of your regular pay (£14 an hour) and literally anyone can inflate their salary like this.
I can make 100k a year working uber if I just never stop driving. Doesn’t mean it’s an amazing salary.
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.
Tory misrule.
After covid, these people risked thier lives to get us through, and the reward is a real world pay cut. Its totally wrong they deserve a proper payrise. Its easy to get the money to cover it too, just tax the people at the top end who pay less tax than pretty much everybody else due to all the workarounds.
That’s our thing, the last resort before things get really bad, uh.
No peaceful manifestations will change anything. It’s good for instagram and to meet new people, but that’s it.
Despite what some people think, you cannot rely on people like doctors working on good will alone forever. As with teachers and nurses, real-terms pay cuts and poor working conditions are driving people away because you can only put up with so much before your selflessness is pushed to its limit. It’s like how clapping did not make up for the sheer hell the NHS went through with COVID. It should not be hard to understand but many seem to want to ignore this fact.
Why are they protesting with dummies in their mouths?