STRIKE: NHS staff walk out over pay (England and NI)
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[QUOTE]A four-hour NHS strike, involving nurses, midwives and ambulance staff in England, has come to an end.
Workers from seven trade unions took part from 07:00 to 11:00 BST in a dispute over pay.
Services have been disrupted, although emergency care was kept running - as was agreed by unions and NHS bosses ahead of the walkout.
Staff in Northern Ireland are taking action from 11:00 to 15:00 BST, but only two unions are involved there.
The walkout will be followed by four-days of work-to-rule from Tuesday.
It is not yet clear just how much disruption has been caused so far.
In advance of the walkout, unions and managers had met to ensure essential services were maintained.
Military personnel and police were also put on stand-by to help ambulance services if needed.
As the morning progressed, reports emerged of ambulance services developing backlogs - although bosses said the life-threatening cases were being prioritised.[/QUOTE]
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Bills going up and these guys haven't had a pay rise in over 5-7 years, most also had their pay cut recently thanks to our glorious government.
My dad's having to pull a few overnight shifts due to the stress on the system this is gonna cause this week.
Pathetic if you ask me.
All in a disgusting bid to cripple the NHS to make privatization more "appealing".
The NHS is really retarded, they pay their staff next to nothing, don't hire enough staff and then SPEND practically double what they pay the staff for agency staff to fill the missing staff they should have hired.
That and paying managers a huge surplus for doing a shitty job.
Shit weather for protesting
[QUOTE=Killergam;46221276]That and paying managers a huge surplus for doing a shitty job.[/QUOTE]
Not entirely true, this only applys to the top 2 tiers of managers, everyone else under that at band 3 gets paid shit compared to the amount of work they have to do.
Your also extremely expendable as my mother's supervisor will shortly be if they drag the local care hospital any more down in the gutter by slashing staff and putting more patients in, which makes no sense.
Mum tells me she quit the NHS because there are doctors on £40k+ a year who only work 2/3 days a week while many nurses work 14 hours a day 6 days a week for less than £30k and basically told to fuck off if they ask for time off. She now works as an agency nurse and gets paid way more because somehow it costs the NHS less to pay her £100 a day instead of just hiring another nurse.
the NHS staff are the only people I think rightful to strike at this moment... it's ridiculous the work they do compared to others who just sit on their ARSES in the same fucking hospital.
[editline]13th October 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Ishwoo;46221796] it costs the NHS less to pay her £100 a day instead of just hiring another nurse.[/QUOTE]
this is common sense, it's much easier for hospitals to use agency staff than permanent workers because permanent staff can just go off sick and still get paid.
I was working in a clinic where 95% of the staff were agency...
[editline]13th October 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=DarkWolf2;46221251]disgusting bid to cripple the NHS[/QUOTE]
the system is the best in the world, this is the only time they've striked in 30 years so they've got every right to say something for once.
Each year goes by and the shit happening just gets unnoticed by the public.
[QUOTE=Ishwoo;46221796]Mum tells me she quit the NHS because there are doctors on £40k+ a year who only work 2/3 days a week while many nurses work 14 hours a day 6 days a week for less than £30k and basically told to fuck off if they ask for time off. She now works as an agency nurse and gets paid way more because somehow it costs the NHS less to pay her £100 a day instead of just hiring another nurse.[/QUOTE]
Really its down to the department and the head of it. I shouldn't really be saying this because its something I shouldn't know but at the hospital my dad works at their department which he sub manages (they've split off the managers roles into multiple groups, got the head of the department, then someone else then team managers which my dad is, basically overlooks and gives roles to people while also doing server work) they've slowly been pulling away from getting agency workers in and keeping shit all in-house.
One because its turning out cheaper to just train the workers you've already got hired to know how to do the stuff that is needed on the servers in the hospital.
Two because you don't have to bother with retarded people who have no care about their job, one of your in-house guys doing a sloppy job? Tell him to get his shit together or he's going (this has happened 4 times in the last 3 years, 2 of them actually did get fired for not doing their workload like everyone else).
Lastly because they've started to make their systems completely independent, no need for outside contractors to come in to install and remove stupid parts or systems and take down the whole computer system for a day just to do some switches.
Meanwhile in the nursing department, it's living hell because someone can't manage them, their manager has walked out multiple times, been replaced and fired however we still have a 3/1 ratio on agency workers to in-house nurses and even then it's not enough because we only have about 13 for the whole fucking hospital.
It's an absolute joke.
[QUOTE=AK'z;46222542]
the system is the best in the world, this is the only time they've striked in 30 years so they've got every right to say something for once.
Each year goes by and the shit happening just gets unnoticed by the public.[/QUOTE]
Radiographers haven't taken strike action in over 30 years either, and they've finally decided they've had enough of it. For all everyone will complain about the NHS, you'd be hard pressed to find an person who truly hates it. The NHS has its flaws, but it's a bloody great and actually comparatively efficient system, even with the huge amounts of wastage on agency staff and outsourcing. (e.g. the cost for a report is about £7 for a plain xray for a private company, £2 for an in house reporting radiographer, yet some places use private reporting on a semi regular basis)
Our manager actually told a member of staff she could be fired if she striked, one of the nurses walked in and told her to "shut the fuck up and fuck off on holiday already you lazy do nothing overpayed cow" god i wish i had my phone on the ward with me yesterday.
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