NHS nurses could strike again in the new year
Nurses striking in April this year: by April next year, they may be on strike again.
It never rains but it pours… or, at this time of year, it never snows but it blizzards.
Rishi Sunak hasn’t sorted out the problems facing him currently, but now it seems troubles from the past are coming back to haunt him:
Rishi Sunak has been warned he faces the prospect of more strike action in the new year unless the government “corrects” a decision to hand nurses one of the lowest pay rises in the public sector.
Nursing leaders said it was an “absolute disgrace” that their members had not been prioritised in the last year, adding that they would consider reballoting members over strikes if necessary once they had guided the NHS through winter.
The warning follows a pay deal for NHS consultants that came on top of rise that was already larger than that offered to nurses.
Prof Nicola Ranger, the chief nurse at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), told the Observer it was “naive of the government to think that this dispute is over”, after a year in which nurses held a series of walkouts in protest at pay and conditions.
She said nurses had rejected the 5% pay offer and lump sum that was eventually forced on them. Further strikes were avoided only after the union narrowly missed a legal threshold for strike action, which requires 50% of members to cast a vote.
Perhaps Sunak and former Health Secretary Steve Barclay should have had more respect for nurses when they were imposing their derisory pay rise.
Source: NHS nurses could strike again in the new year | Nursing | The Guardian
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Fascist tories have demonstrated their contempt for the predominantly female nurses because they believe female nurses are ‘not worth being paid a salary compensorate with their specialist skills.’ After all anyone can work as a nurse (sic) but the specialist consultants well they are indeed ‘special’ so must be given a huge pay rise!
Typical fascist tory dogma – nursing is not a specialist skill – just as care workers are disposable and hence should only receive minimum payment and work 24/7 for a pittance!