africanspur
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My point is, what difference does it actually make?we are in the middle of a pandemic, and an NHS union comes out and demands a 12.5% raise, and threat of a strike. Perception is opportunistic and tone deaf.
let’s wait and see - but that’s going to get a lot of backs up.
we will have circa 5.5% of the population unemployed when furlough ends - I’m not saying the NHS should be happy with a 1% raise - but for a significant proportion of people their opinion will be “be thankful you have a bloody job”.
If the public support the nurses getting a payrise, what are they going to do? If they don't support it, what are they going to do?
The reality is, most people have too much on their plates, pandemic or no, to get too involved in matters which don't particularly impact on their daily lives.All the public support in the world means very little, as the junior docs found out a few years ago.
And people will always have opinions like that. I had a management consultant of all bloody people a few months ago telling me what was ruining the NHS was locum rates for doctors and nurses. The fecking cheek of this woman.