All the while retaining an MP's salary and expenses, and having already had the 17 grand severance pay for a Cabinet Minister twice in the last three years, Gavin Williamson has graciously foregone it on this occasion. It is half a year's pay to a median-paid nurse.
If nurses are too important to be allowed to strike, then two in five of them ought not to be using food banks. No one ought to be in that position, but emphatically not quite such key workers. Workplace food banks are a particular badge of shame under any circumstances, and a dazzling case study in lack of self-awareness, but they are as sickening as they are stunning when the employer is the currency-issuing State.
The National Health Service was created by Aneurin Bevan, and it flourished in the glory days of British trade unionism. Whether or not strikes of this kind have ever happened before, they and a lot more have always been planned for. There is no threat to patient care, and any Health Minister or informed commentator knows that in detail.
Starmer is actively opposing this action.
ReplyDeleteHe says that there can be real terms pay increases only in the unrepeatable economic growth of 1997 to 2007. So never. Vote Labour, and you are voting for that.
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