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Nurses Next To Strike?
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In the current climate I reckon it’s a strong possibility.
/The Royal College of Nursing is balloting all of its UK members for strike action for the first time in its 106-year history.
The union is recommending its 300,000 members walk out over pay, with the result of the ballot due next month.
If strikes go ahead, the RCN says they would affect non-urgent but not emergency care.
The government has urged nurses to "carefully consider" the impact on patients./
……just after it removed the cap on bankers bonuses and attempted to increase the wealth of the top 1% in the country?
As a great character once said:
The impudence, the audacity, the unmitigated gall.
In the current climate I reckon it’s a strong possibility.
/The Royal College of Nursing is balloting all of its UK members for strike action for the first time in its 106-year history.
The union is recommending its 300,000 members walk out over pay, with the result of the ballot due next month.
If strikes go ahead, the RCN says they would affect non-urgent but not emergency care.
The government has urged nurses to "carefully consider" the impact on patients./
……just after it removed the cap on bankers bonuses and attempted to increase the wealth of the top 1% in the country?
As a great character once said:
The impudence, the audacity, the unmitigated gall.
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"The country has a difficult winter ahead but the unions will make sure it’s even more difficult." I don't think we need worry too much now that we have a crack team in place with real world experience and the good of citizens at heart. Reasonable negotiations and not knee-jerk reaction will surely be the order of the day.
17:01 Thu 06th Oct 2022
I've mentioned this in the past - my first wife was an ITU Sister (could still be for all I know), and she regularly used to work agency shifts.
She'd finish one day as an NHS nurse, and work the next as an agency nurse, more often than not on the same unit.
I can remember her working on Xmas night one year and she was paid about £300......this was in the late 90s!
I can't say I blame them.
The fact is, the money is there to be earnt, so I'd suggest the foodbank stories are very much the exception that proves the rule, and they're trotted out because they're so unusual and it's grist to the mill for the mouth-frothers.
She'd finish one day as an NHS nurse, and work the next as an agency nurse, more often than not on the same unit.
I can remember her working on Xmas night one year and she was paid about £300......this was in the late 90s!
I can't say I blame them.
The fact is, the money is there to be earnt, so I'd suggest the foodbank stories are very much the exception that proves the rule, and they're trotted out because they're so unusual and it's grist to the mill for the mouth-frothers.
'the average wage of a UK Nurse is somewhere around the £33,000 to £35,000 a year mark.'
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"I know a senior nurse who only has to do 2 days per week with an agency and gets paid a good deal more than she would be working her prescribed full time NHS hours.. ridiculous..there really should be some kind of control...it IS public money after all"
then the answer is probably to pay full time NHS nurses more, no?
then the answer is probably to pay full time NHS nurses more, no?
My wife is a retired nurse, spending her last six years fighting staff cuts whilst watching money being wasted by hospitals buying items independently at inflated prices. The NHS should have a central purchasing centre - it would save £££millions - money which could go where it is needed … staff wages.
