Good, they deserve a lot more than this and previous governments have given them
I know that it’s disruptive for patients, but the nurses in the NHS definitely need to be fairly remunerated fo what they do. These professionals were on the front-line during Covid, where many gave their lives to help patients. And then you have those that can’t work anymore due to the long term effects of Covid. They definitely deserve to be held in a higher regard. In my eyes they work a lot harder, but earn a lot less than those in the Houses of Parliament. And those are the ones that decide what they should be earning. What a world!
Like everyone else, nurses want to be able to pay their bills, enjoy a comfortable retirement, maybe have a little fun, and send their kids to college. They are only interested in what is fair and equitable. At the wages being paid today, not all of these things are feasible.
Strike out at the fools!
The US needs this shit. Nursing professionals are under constant pressure from abusive patients, unreasonable family demands, administration’s strict adherence to policy, and other professionals in the field. Not to mention being the first to witness the real patient’s bad situation. Working in hospitals is no longer worthwhile; it’s frightening to consider what will happen when I or a loved one actually needs a hospital.
I don’t care what anyone says. We were all happy enough for them to work through COVID in what was essentially war time levels of patients, all the while putting themselves at massive risk.
They need to be looked after,and without these health care workers our country us fucked. We need to retain as many as possible, and we need incentives for them to stay.
Our NHS is integral to the way this country works, and I myself have relied upon it a few times in my life. They are asking to be paid a fair wage for the work that they do, what’s so fucking hard to understand.
What many don’t seem to realise is that paying Nurses more is an investment for all our futures…
They were our heroes during the pandemic and now they are treated with disdain.
If there’s one thing COVID taught me, it’s that we live in a country full to the brim, with very very stupid people. I’m talking about a lack of basic intelligence and critical thinking skills. The number of people I see and hear on the daily, who have the inability or arrogant unwillingness to accept that there are other people who share this world with them is mind boggling.
Many selfish, dumb assholes in our society simply cannot comprehend living in a world where a workforce which will likely save their lives one day, *can be paid a fair living wage for the work they’re doing.* That’s too much to ask. So many people don’t care to see past their own front yards. I haven’t seen a single substantial or valid argument *not* to give these workers (or any workers for that matter) a *fair living wage*.
The Tories have been dismantling the NHS for *years*. If you believe the NHS should be replaced by a private system, you are being led on; you have fallen for the ruse.
My NI contributions are 8x my dog’s medical insurance.
His next available appointment (video call): in 35min.
My next available appointment (video call): in 4 days
This is how messed up the system is. 13 years of underfunding, putting mates in director roles that can’t manage a vending machine, heading out contracts to dodgy childhood friends, no modernization of services and so on.
Kick them out of the government already!
Disgusting how strikes are constantly blamed for long failing gov policies that have been brewing for over a decade before.
Like starving the NHS of staff and funding didn’t risk lives EVER DAY those services operated.
Worst of all the services are fully paid for by the taxpayer and they aren’t getting a fraction of what they bought.
What is appalling, and the media is ultra complicit in this, is the ‘other unions have accepted this’ B S.
They AREN’T nursing unions!
It is a nice little increase for the lowest AFC grades, but they HAVEN’T been on strike, they AREN’T nurses!
Yes, lower grades should definitely be better paid, but they aren’t professionally registered, they simply do not have the professional responsibility or working conditions, albeit they work their arses off!
The RCN is the main nursing union, and some are members of unison, but that has always been a minority.
Hence in a Unison vote, actual nurses votes are completely lost and swamped in any result.
Yes, other unions such as midwifery etc have accepted, but they have always had a far superior, rapid, grade progression.
I’m ex clinical, my wife is clinical, I walked long ago utterly disgusted at the dangerous levels/mix of staffing , and told them exactly what I thought of them.
I see friends, colleagues and family, working in utterly appalling conditions for a pittance compared to other non professional jobs.
I have relatives on over twice a senior nurses pay, semi skilled, no stress, no responsibility, no mental input, no doing 50+ things at once with the coroner looking over your shoulder, and treated well, as opposed to like dirt.
It’s sickening, and it’s gone on too bloody long!
Let’s all open our front doors at 6pm and give them a clap
Can we just remember that there other clinical staff in addition to out hardworking nurses who also deserve better pay and worked through the pandemic on wards and in the community. Please don’t vote Tory, if you have that inclination and don’t vote for anyone else, stay home on election nights and try and find your soul.
I accidentally on purpose checked the daily mail comments about this. Day ruined
The government were able to generate an extra 19 billion in taxes last year.
This is extra then they had accounted for.
The government are well able to public strikers. They can afford it. The tories just choose not too.
Fuck the Tories save the NHS. The conservatives and management are intentionally killing the NHS. Pay Doctors better! Pay Nurses better! Pay EMTs better! #support-our-nurses and tax the fucking rich
Nursing is a degree level job which pays a pittance compared to other professions, a profession where you carry a high burden of responsibility, work long hours, suffer emotionally, and often work several times as hard due to understaffing, it is the epitome of overworked and underpaid. Add to that, this government took away bursaries for student nurses and instead burdened them with student debt… What incentive is there to become a nurse knowing the pressures that await you with a debt that you can never pay off?
Should start with getting back the £££ millions Baroness Mone was given by the tories f9r fake PPE!
My local hospital would need to still have nurses for them to go on strike.
They’re quitting in droves as far as I can tell, and I can’t say I blame them.
Please remember what this government has done when it comes to the election in a year and a half
22 Apr 2023 —
Home Secretary Suella Braverman once asked if a speeding ticket could be claimed on expenses,
How could they do this when we clapped for them whilst they put their own lives at risk during covid!!???!??? Ffs just give them what they want, I’m so sick of hearing about them getting fucked over now why don’t we get any say in this?
Completely support it
The pay for public sector since 2010 is a sick joke and the Tory’s are running it into the ground so they can point at Labour wasting money to fix it.
How were they ever allowed to have pay rises below the rate of inflation for public sector roles where there’s no competition for people to leave their roles for.
So what is the average Salary for an experienced Nurse
What more than a decade of Tories does to a motherfucker
Around my way there’s a few rainbows and “Thank You NHS” on the road surface. They’ve started to crack and fade in a timely metaphor for the public’s attitude
There are 43,000 vacancies. In a free market economy – which this government says we are – salaries need to increase to fill these. While the nurses strikes are not good for patients, although they’ve still covered critical services, those 43,000 vacancies affect the health care of voters.
As an aside, these “independent” pay review bodies need looking in.
If they paid us for our breaks, which we often skip, then there’s 8% pay rise already! We don’t get any extras, no education, no overtime, no perks, no nothing! We get abused, pissed on, puked on and clean arses, even the most skilled in critical care. Unless we want to compromise our future care, we are already up shit creek, we need to demonstrate nursing is a worthy career!
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Good, they deserve a lot more than this and previous governments have given them
I know that it’s disruptive for patients, but the nurses in the NHS definitely need to be fairly remunerated fo what they do. These professionals were on the front-line during Covid, where many gave their lives to help patients. And then you have those that can’t work anymore due to the long term effects of Covid. They definitely deserve to be held in a higher regard. In my eyes they work a lot harder, but earn a lot less than those in the Houses of Parliament. And those are the ones that decide what they should be earning. What a world!
Like everyone else, nurses want to be able to pay their bills, enjoy a comfortable retirement, maybe have a little fun, and send their kids to college. They are only interested in what is fair and equitable. At the wages being paid today, not all of these things are feasible.
Strike out at the fools!
The US needs this shit. Nursing professionals are under constant pressure from abusive patients, unreasonable family demands, administration’s strict adherence to policy, and other professionals in the field. Not to mention being the first to witness the real patient’s bad situation. Working in hospitals is no longer worthwhile; it’s frightening to consider what will happen when I or a loved one actually needs a hospital.
I don’t care what anyone says. We were all happy enough for them to work through COVID in what was essentially war time levels of patients, all the while putting themselves at massive risk.
They need to be looked after,and without these health care workers our country us fucked. We need to retain as many as possible, and we need incentives for them to stay.
Our NHS is integral to the way this country works, and I myself have relied upon it a few times in my life. They are asking to be paid a fair wage for the work that they do, what’s so fucking hard to understand.
What many don’t seem to realise is that paying Nurses more is an investment for all our futures…
They were our heroes during the pandemic and now they are treated with disdain.
If there’s one thing COVID taught me, it’s that we live in a country full to the brim, with very very stupid people. I’m talking about a lack of basic intelligence and critical thinking skills. The number of people I see and hear on the daily, who have the inability or arrogant unwillingness to accept that there are other people who share this world with them is mind boggling.
Many selfish, dumb assholes in our society simply cannot comprehend living in a world where a workforce which will likely save their lives one day, *can be paid a fair living wage for the work they’re doing.* That’s too much to ask. So many people don’t care to see past their own front yards. I haven’t seen a single substantial or valid argument *not* to give these workers (or any workers for that matter) a *fair living wage*.
The Tories have been dismantling the NHS for *years*. If you believe the NHS should be replaced by a private system, you are being led on; you have fallen for the ruse.
My NI contributions are 8x my dog’s medical insurance.
His next available appointment (video call): in 35min.
My next available appointment (video call): in 4 days
This is how messed up the system is. 13 years of underfunding, putting mates in director roles that can’t manage a vending machine, heading out contracts to dodgy childhood friends, no modernization of services and so on.
Kick them out of the government already!
Disgusting how strikes are constantly blamed for long failing gov policies that have been brewing for over a decade before.
Like starving the NHS of staff and funding didn’t risk lives EVER DAY those services operated.
Worst of all the services are fully paid for by the taxpayer and they aren’t getting a fraction of what they bought.
What is appalling, and the media is ultra complicit in this, is the ‘other unions have accepted this’ B S.
They AREN’T nursing unions!
It is a nice little increase for the lowest AFC grades, but they HAVEN’T been on strike, they AREN’T nurses!
Yes, lower grades should definitely be better paid, but they aren’t professionally registered, they simply do not have the professional responsibility or working conditions, albeit they work their arses off!
The RCN is the main nursing union, and some are members of unison, but that has always been a minority.
Hence in a Unison vote, actual nurses votes are completely lost and swamped in any result.
Yes, other unions such as midwifery etc have accepted, but they have always had a far superior, rapid, grade progression.
I’m ex clinical, my wife is clinical, I walked long ago utterly disgusted at the dangerous levels/mix of staffing , and told them exactly what I thought of them.
I see friends, colleagues and family, working in utterly appalling conditions for a pittance compared to other non professional jobs.
I have relatives on over twice a senior nurses pay, semi skilled, no stress, no responsibility, no mental input, no doing 50+ things at once with the coroner looking over your shoulder, and treated well, as opposed to like dirt.
It’s sickening, and it’s gone on too bloody long!
Let’s all open our front doors at 6pm and give them a clap
Can we just remember that there other clinical staff in addition to out hardworking nurses who also deserve better pay and worked through the pandemic on wards and in the community. Please don’t vote Tory, if you have that inclination and don’t vote for anyone else, stay home on election nights and try and find your soul.
I accidentally on purpose checked the daily mail comments about this. Day ruined
The government were able to generate an extra 19 billion in taxes last year.
This is extra then they had accounted for.
The government are well able to public strikers. They can afford it. The tories just choose not too.
Fuck the Tories save the NHS. The conservatives and management are intentionally killing the NHS. Pay Doctors better! Pay Nurses better! Pay EMTs better! #support-our-nurses and tax the fucking rich
Nursing is a degree level job which pays a pittance compared to other professions, a profession where you carry a high burden of responsibility, work long hours, suffer emotionally, and often work several times as hard due to understaffing, it is the epitome of overworked and underpaid. Add to that, this government took away bursaries for student nurses and instead burdened them with student debt… What incentive is there to become a nurse knowing the pressures that await you with a debt that you can never pay off?
Should start with getting back the £££ millions Baroness Mone was given by the tories f9r fake PPE!
My local hospital would need to still have nurses for them to go on strike.
They’re quitting in droves as far as I can tell, and I can’t say I blame them.
Please remember what this government has done when it comes to the election in a year and a half
22 Apr 2023 —
Home Secretary Suella Braverman once asked if a speeding ticket could be claimed on expenses,
How could they do this when we clapped for them whilst they put their own lives at risk during covid!!???!??? Ffs just give them what they want, I’m so sick of hearing about them getting fucked over now why don’t we get any say in this?
Completely support it
The pay for public sector since 2010 is a sick joke and the Tory’s are running it into the ground so they can point at Labour wasting money to fix it.
How were they ever allowed to have pay rises below the rate of inflation for public sector roles where there’s no competition for people to leave their roles for.
So what is the average Salary for an experienced Nurse
What more than a decade of Tories does to a motherfucker
Around my way there’s a few rainbows and “Thank You NHS” on the road surface. They’ve started to crack and fade in a timely metaphor for the public’s attitude
There are 43,000 vacancies. In a free market economy – which this government says we are – salaries need to increase to fill these. While the nurses strikes are not good for patients, although they’ve still covered critical services, those 43,000 vacancies affect the health care of voters.
As an aside, these “independent” pay review bodies need looking in.
If they paid us for our breaks, which we often skip, then there’s 8% pay rise already! We don’t get any extras, no education, no overtime, no perks, no nothing! We get abused, pissed on, puked on and clean arses, even the most skilled in critical care. Unless we want to compromise our future care, we are already up shit creek, we need to demonstrate nursing is a worthy career!