[Levin]

Sun, 15 January 2023 at 2:00 pm SGT


Double the number of nurses will be asked to strike in early February in an attempt to increase pressure on the Government, union leaders have warned.

The Royal College of Nursing has said that if progress is not made in negotiations by the end of January, the next set of strikes will include all eligible members in England for the first time.

This comes as ministers push for new laws requiring minimum levels of service on strike days - legislation which is expected to take around six months to pass through Parliament.


https://sg.style.yahoo.com/nursing-union...00237.html

[Blin]

Sun, 15 January 2023 at 2:00 pm SGT


Double the number of nurses will be asked to strike in early February in an attempt to increase pressure on the Government, union leaders have warned.

The Royal College of Nursing has said that if progress is not made in negotiations by the end of January, the next set of strikes will include all eligible members in England for the first time.

This comes as ministers push for new laws requiring minimum levels of service on strike days - legislation which is expected to take around six months to pass through Parliament.


https://sg.style.yahoo.com/nursing-union...00237.html

uk govt cannot do anything to them.
can Soldiers can do nursing job?drive trains can .

[Levin]

uk govt cannot do anything to them.
can Soldiers can do nursing job?drive trains can .

UK is now coming up with a law that prevent essential service workers from striking in a way that breaks down essential services. That is the direction they are taking. But that will take at least 6 months.

[sgbuffett]

Going on strike to demand higher pay because of inflation marks the start of inflation vicious cycle
...that was what killed the UK economy in 1970s.

Until Thatcher fought the unions and closed them.

Want to ask for pay wait until inflation cools.off

[Basic_Strategy]

UK is now coming up with a law that prevent essential service workers from striking in a way that breaks down essential services. That is the direction they are taking. But that will take at least 6 months.

Longer than 6 months. Even if it passes Parliament in both houses, it will definitely get challenged in court by the unions who will seek to have it ruled unlawful through violating ECHR laws pertaining to the right of workers to strike. 

Tories have no guarantee of making this stick unless they repeal ECHR. And that will open up a bigger political mess than what they face currently.

[Basic_Strategy]

Going on strike to demand higher pay because of inflation marks the start of inflation vicious cycle
...that was what killed the UK economy in 1970s.

Until Thatcher fought the unions and closed them.

Want to ask for pay wait until inflation cools.off

Thing is Thatcher didn't fight all the unions, and she fought from a position of strength. 

When she crushed the miners' unions and Arthur Scargill, she did so when the government had ample coal stockpiles, and she did so at the start of spring after winter ended so the miners couldn't hold the country hostage to energy demands for heating. 

UK healthcare in its current form is on its last legs and collapsing. They don't have enough nurses and doctors joining every year to neutralise the attrition rate. There's no win-win scenario to be had here. Best option for the Tories is to make it lose-lose and burn the whole system down before losing the next GE to Labour and letting them inherit a mess they cannot have any hope of fixing.

[cityhantam]

Going on strike to demand higher pay because of inflation marks the start of inflation vicious cycle
...that was what killed the UK economy in 1970s.

Until Thatcher fought the unions and closed them.

Want to ask for pay wait until inflation cools.off

This time it's different lah!

[starbugs]

As unpopular as it seems, free healthcare in the form of NHS is not sustainable. Some co-payment e.g. 10-20% is needed. If healthcare is free, everybody with ailments no matter how small will try to visit the hospital. If the nurses want a pay rise, the raise will have to come directly from patients. The UK govt is broke.

[cityhantam]

As unpopular as it seems, free healthcare in the form of NHS is not sustainable. Some co-payment e.g. 10-20% is needed. If healthcare is free, everybody with ailments no matter how small will try to visit the hospital. If the nurses want a pay rise, the raise will have to come directly from patients. The UK govt is broke.

 Brits are vet proud of their NHS!

How can you condemn their system?