Oh sod it, why not...no confidence petition re Hunt
Petition: Consider a vote of No Confidence in Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary
As so often happens, the wrong people are on strike here.
In Americas 'fight for $15' is taking place. Home care workers, child care workers, supermarket and fast food workers are on strike.
In Britain 'junior' doctors- who already earn more than most people can ever dream of earning, and will earn even more in years to come are on strike.
Says it all IMHO.
"According to figures from the NHS Employers Organisation, the average total salary for a doctor in training is around £37,000."
Junior doctors' pay: How does your job compare? - BBC News
Yes, but that is only for the first year. Outside of London, £22,000 is actually quite good money, and as a starting salary it would be considered very good indeed.
I'm not saying doctors should be on the minimum wage or anything, but they wouldn't be top of my list of needy causes either...
That you're a scab-licking shitcunt?
No, it will be all of us. They may get the junior doctors working the weekends as though they are weekdays but what about the other roles. Doctors can't do 90% of what needs to be done to care for patients (or diagnose them for that matter!). You can be sure that Nurses weekend enhancements are next for the chop, and then all the other Professions!You really don't get it. You're too busy buying into the "but they earn enough" shit.
If the government is allowed to unilaterally impose new employment contracts with adverse terms and conditions on public sector employees, where do you think they'll stop -with the doctors?
being as this thread's about public sector workers going on strike it seems perverse to introduce hypotheticals about bankers going on strike: bankers of course generally not unionised although there is a union for bank workers: a different breed altogether.
your introduction of the dichotomy public sector strike good / private sector strike bad based on a dishonest sleight of hand.
No, it will be all of us. They may get the junior doctors working the weekends as though they are weekdays but what about the other roles. Doctors can't do 90% of what needs to be done to care for patients (or diagnose them for that matter!). You can be sure that Nurses weekend enhancements are next for the chop, and then all the other Professions!
Oh lovely.
serious question. If there was a 'junior bankers' strike taking place in the City of London, how many people on this thread would support it?
After all, how does attacking the terms and conditions of junior bankers help security guards, receptionists and those that clean their offices?
I mean how could it possibly affect us if doctors have to work longer hours? It's not like they have to make life and death decisions.As so often happens, the wrong people are on strike here.
In Americas 'fight for $15' is taking place. Home care workers, child care workers, supermarket and fast food workers are on strike.
In Britain 'junior' doctors- who already earn more than most people can ever dream of earning, and will earn even more in years to come are on strike.
Says it all IMHO.
Showed this to a colleague who chuckled and said "let's get Hunt sacked". Sadly, I'm not sure that would stop anything
Unless... if public opinion was so against it would the government throw Hunt under the bus as they u-turned?
...The Tories are talking about this in terms of this being their "miners' strike" - a one-off opportunity not just to break a union, but a profession....
They certainly have contempt for the professions: first the teachers (anyone without qualifications could teach according to Gove), now the doctors. Do they dare take on the legal profession too?They won't "u-turn". If Hunt goes, they'll just replace him with another small brain/big ego combo like Grunt Shitts. The Tories are talking about this in terms of this being their "miners' strike" - a one-off opportunity not just to break a union, but a profession. Once they've broken the doctors - if it doesn't happen this time round, they'll go again after the referendum - they'll sweep through the public sector like shit through a goose.
As so often happens, the wrong people are on strike here.
In Americas 'fight for $15' is taking place. Home care workers, child care workers, supermarket and fast food workers are on strike.
In Britain 'junior' doctors- who already earn more than most people can ever dream of earning, and will earn even more in years to come are on strike.
Says it all IMHO.
Stop being a cunt.Oh yes those poor working class junior doctors going down t' pit every day.
Get to fuck, you private healthcare supporting cunt.
" he is either dishonest or stupid, I don’t know which is worse."
Andrew Mitchell's daughter calls for sacking of Jeremy Hunt
The junior doctor I know is about 7 years in and still in debt from the years of study. He regularly works 12 hour days, and has never been skiing in his life. .When did I ever mention private healthcare? The NHS is great. I still think GPs are overpaid though.
Quite, even if you're so incredibly dim as to not support the doctors, the fact that they are striking is excellent news as it will hopefully encourage others to do the same.I work in a supermarket and I've talked about the strike with a few different colleagues who all support the strike. Fuck this divide and rule shit, we should all strike as early and often as possible.
Well, knock me down with a feather.b) in this case from me.
Tu stultus es.b) in this case from me.
b) in this case from me.