Nurses to stage 48 Hour Strike

[baggieal]

Can’t say I blame them with prices going through the roof and council tax rises coming next which are heavier than most peoples percentage pay increase!

Meanwhile this Government will be happy that British Gas are the next energy supplier to announce record breaking profits!

As Rishi - says - ‘it’s hard for us all’. W anker!

[WBA1955]

They get my support as do any strikers who are working for a pittance while fat cats announce record profits.
I would accept high price hikes if the money was put back to improve the service, but not to make rich people even richer.

[mickd1961]

They get my support as do any strikers who are working for a pittance while fat cats announce record profits.
I would accept high price hikes if the money was put back to improve the service, but not to make rich people even richer.

One of my best mates wife works as a sister at Russell’s Hall Des.

She says the place is awash with waste, inept management.

She says there’s a large number of staff who play the system by going long term sick until the last minute, coming back in again for a couple of weeks and then taking months more off.

The whole thing is rotten to the core.

She’s so fed up with the lack of quality around her that she’s preparing to pack it in and she’s only 40.

[Omegstrat6]

One of my best mates wife works as a sister at Russell’s Hall

She says the place is awash with waste, inept management.

She says there’s a large number of staff who play the system by going long term sick until the last minute, coming back in again for a couple of weeks and then taking months more off.

The whole thing is rotten to the core.

She’s so fed up with the lack of quality around her that she’s preparing to pack it in and she’s only 40.

Don't doubt for a second that there are numerous examples of this attitude throughout the nhs (and have posted on several occasions about my beliefs around this poor productivity/management) but there are far more hard working and conscientious nhs employees who are equally frustrated by this and do the best they can under poor conditions and pay. A major revamp and rethink of the service has long been overdue -though I firmly believe this should not mean further privatization which has only made matters worse-but In the meantime, these nurses surely deserve our support.

[mickd1961]

Don't doubt for a second that there are numerous examples of this attitude throughout the nhs (and have posted on several occasions about my beliefs around this poor productivity/management) but there are far more hard working and conscientious nhs employees who are equally frustrated by this and do the best they can under poor conditions and pay. A major revamp and rethink of the service has long been overdue -though I firmly believe this should not mean further privatization which has only made matters worse-but In the meantime, these nurses surely deserve our support.

Everyone will be supportive until their relative dies due to a gap in staffing on strike days.

As long as you’re happy to accept the loss of a wife, mother, child etc due to a staffing gap then that’s fine.

[baggieal]

Everyone will be supportive until their relative dies due to a gap in staffing on strike days.

As long as you’re happy to accept the loss of a wife, mother, child etc due to a staffing gap then that’s fine.

Speaking to a very senior NHS employee privatisation will happen but there will be a tier system where those who are vulnerable or on the breadline or have no assets won’t have to pay. It’s going to happen and indirectly it’s happening now! If you are in pain or need an operation and have the cash or can raise the cash via a credit card - you would be a sad person not to go private as opposed to being in pain and waiting two years for example!

Changes will keep happening to state pensions too ie the age will keep going up and rumour has it - you won’t get one if your assets are over X. This would not surprise me in the slightest as if you need a care home and you have the assets - there’s no such thing as a freebie!! So wrong as you work hard all your life then hammered so best to get rid of it!

[Dubbag]

If society highly values a footballer on £20K a week and a nurse on say £700 a week, then it says a lot about your society.
What appears to be missing is a morale view.
But then morals are the first thing to be sold I guess.