Correct magpie_mania I don't know any supermarket workers that are on £33,000 a year. This dispute started as a cry for more pay to stop them using food banks, and as support for the strike is not so popular now, they are chirping about it now being all about staffing levels and not being able to look after patients in the way they would like.
A 19% pay increase for a nurse would mean them receiving an extra £120 pounds a week, (let that sink in) which is funded by the tax payer, who then ends up at the food bank
sinophile, yes lets all pay more tax so the NHS staff can have lots of money to spend. Big question is how do the poor b*ggers making all these extra goods the nurses are buying, get a pay rise, as the vast majority would not be in a union and chances are their bosses would pocket all the extra money made from the sale of these items.
Elite_Pie many workers take home far less pay and work in far worse conditions than NHS staff but do not have a union to hold the country to ransom. Compared to the jobs I had in my working career, I would be as happy as a pig in sh*t working for the NHS.