The government don’t like Unions, so they are doing everything to turn the public against them.
It is like in the US, Walmart get a whiff of a Union, they would sooner demolish the shop.
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Given the lack of precidedent for healthcare strikes it’ll probably be found unlawful rather than illegal.
The government will use the court action to get a temporary injunction which will last longer than the current strike mandate anyway. It doesn’t really matter what the outcome of the trial is.
Nurses yeah these greedy selfish people just wanting money when everyones struggling what have they done for us recently? – Some Tory bastard probably
It doesn’t matter what draconian law the government quotes, there is nothing they can do about it, apart from fire them, and they just go and work in New Zealand or Australia for double the money. I dont think the RCN give a toss whether they have public support or not. I wouldn’t (I am an RMN) Banging saucepans doesn’t cut it.
The government trying to treat strikes as a legal issue will only backfire on them. If they try to charge any nurses for this the union will certainly respond to this. This is not a battle the government can, or will, win.
I back the nurses but it sounds like their overpaid union boss has dropped the ball and is deflecting. From her comments she knows full well she is instructing her members to ignore the six month mandate but rather then secure a new one which I’m sure they would get, she tried to chance it or miscounted the dates and is now going for the sympathy vote. Seems pretty incompetent not to have known this was coming, so I would assume it’s tactics trying to frame the government as banning strikes
That’s a bit much, and the unions know it.
Asking courts to rule on the validity of strikes is very common, it’s petty but it’s how strikes work. The unions take employers to court over similar things. We don’t argue that the unions are treating managers like criminals then.
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The government don’t like Unions, so they are doing everything to turn the public against them.
It is like in the US, Walmart get a whiff of a Union, they would sooner demolish the shop.
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Given the lack of precidedent for healthcare strikes it’ll probably be found unlawful rather than illegal.
The government will use the court action to get a temporary injunction which will last longer than the current strike mandate anyway. It doesn’t really matter what the outcome of the trial is.
Nurses yeah these greedy selfish people just wanting money when everyones struggling what have they done for us recently? – Some Tory bastard probably
It doesn’t matter what draconian law the government quotes, there is nothing they can do about it, apart from fire them, and they just go and work in New Zealand or Australia for double the money. I dont think the RCN give a toss whether they have public support or not. I wouldn’t (I am an RMN) Banging saucepans doesn’t cut it.
The government trying to treat strikes as a legal issue will only backfire on them. If they try to charge any nurses for this the union will certainly respond to this. This is not a battle the government can, or will, win.
I back the nurses but it sounds like their overpaid union boss has dropped the ball and is deflecting. From her comments she knows full well she is instructing her members to ignore the six month mandate but rather then secure a new one which I’m sure they would get, she tried to chance it or miscounted the dates and is now going for the sympathy vote. Seems pretty incompetent not to have known this was coming, so I would assume it’s tactics trying to frame the government as banning strikes
That’s a bit much, and the unions know it.
Asking courts to rule on the validity of strikes is very common, it’s petty but it’s how strikes work. The unions take employers to court over similar things. We don’t argue that the unions are treating managers like criminals then.