Nurses excluded from public sector pay rise – because of impending NHS sell-off?
No pay rise for nurses: by keeping the payroll as low as possible, aren’t the Tories making the NHS more attractive to US corporate buyers?
The Tories have denied nurses a pay rise that they have granted to other public sector workers including teachers and doctors.
It seems that, while these other professions are to get a raise “recognising their efforts on the frontline during the battle against COVID-19”, nurses – after many of their colleagues died on the Covid-19 “frontline” – are to be ignored.
The Tories say nurses are already benefiting from a series of pay hikes imposed in 2017 – but nursing representatives say this is blurring the line between professional progression and a pay rise.
Certainly there is a difference between the Tory claim that the average nurse will “receive an average 4.4 per cent rise this year” and the 1.65 per cent the vast majority of nurses had.
Here’s a thought, though: The Tories just voted en masse to ensure that the NHS is included in any trade deal with the United States.
If they’re about to hand over such a large concern to new, corporate, profit-driven owners, they’ll want to ensure that it has relatively low operating costs – and the best way to do that is to keep payroll costs down, what with wages being the highest cost in most businesses.
Doesn’t that make sense to you?
Source: No new pay rise for nurses, confirms Downing Street | NursingNotes
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