#supportthestrikes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #supportthestrikes, aggregated by home.social.
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In just over an hour the #NHS #radiographers start their #strike.
I know I keep saying this, but if in the next couple of days your #treatment is delayed due to their action, please remember no-one in the NHS wants to harm #patients.
The strikers have been backed into a corner by an aggressive policy of defunding the NHS carried out by a party contemptuous of our #HealthService!
Lay this at the #Tories door and...
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The #BMA is raising the stakes; now threatening that all doctors (from consultants & specialists to 'junior' doctors) will be taking #strike action before the next #election if the Govt. do not meet their demands for pay to increased to make up for its historic real terms decline.
Given that #SteveBarclay for now continues to want to play 'hardball' we are heading towards a long(er) period of disruption.
As always remember this all stems from #Tories defunding of the NHS;
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As we head towards a(nother) #JuniorDoctors #strike... once again its worth emphasising that this is a strike that has been directly caused by the #Tories defunding of the #NHS, their callous attitude to the well-being of others & their strategy of driving (rich-enough) #patients into the arms of private #healthcare.
If #RishiSunak or #SteveBarclay actually wanted to reach a deal with the BMA/Junior Doctors they could, but they are choosing not to.
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Pat Cullen of the RCN on today's high court victory by #SteveBarclay in declaring the next #Nurses stoppage illegal on the basis that second day was beyond the period of the last strike ballot:
They may 'have won their legal battle . . . they have lost nursing & they’ve lost the public'!
Absolutely right!
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NHS crisis deepens as nursing union plans ‘mega strike’ in England
#SupportTheStrikes #NHSStrike #SupportTheJuniorDoctors #GeneralElectionNow
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NHS crisis deepens as nursing union plans ‘mega strike’ in England
#SupportTheStrikes #NHSStrike #SupportTheJuniorDoctors #GeneralElectionNow
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NHS crisis deepens as nursing union plans ‘mega strike’ in England
#SupportTheStrikes #NHSStrike #SupportTheJuniorDoctors #GeneralElectionNow
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A #JuniorDoctor speaks:
'We need the government to recognise the crisis that’s happening in our healthcare system; recognise that junior doctors are instrumental to fixing that crisis; and pay us what we’re worth'!
#supportourNHS #SupportTheStrikes
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/11/junior-doctors-strike-pay-nhs-corridors
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Yesterday afternoon #RishiSunakPM said that as part of the 'additional funding' for the #NHS pay settlement there will be some 'reprioritisation, as there always is'; so that' not fully funded then - at least some of the cash will be redirected from the current budget.... so the row back didn't take long did it now (hours rather than days)
h/t @fkamiah17 for the heads up on that!
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So #RishiSunakPM, with #juniordoctors now voting to join the #NHSstrikes, how that game of hardball going for you?
So #SupportTheStrikes however inconvenient it is for you
#SupportOurNurses, because clapping (in the end) was a distraction...
The NHS is not safe in #Tory hands... and this is what the strikes are really about!
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It seems #RishiSunakPM finally may(!!) be considering back-dated pay rises for #strikers in the #publicsector...
but as before this is so much hogwash if #JeremyHunt continues to hold the line that all pyrites must come from within existing/settled budgets... if so, this is just another run at defunding public services (most crucially the #NHS) & will merely shift the problem from one aspect of the (various) public services' organisation to another...
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Over the weekend the #Nurses leader(s) and the Govt. traded blows over whether (in light of tis weeks #NHSstrikes) the Govt. was currently 'at the table' discussing the underlying pay issues...
The Nurses said there were no talks going on, the Govt. claimed there were.... making this an issue of who do you trust to be telling the truth, which to be frank in light of the #Tories frequent mendacity makes it an easy choice this morning!
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If you don't support the strikers you're a bellend.
Pass it on.
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It will be no surprise to you that #inflation has hit the value of (real terms) incomes, in both the private & public sectors...
Certainly private sector #employees are suffering, but this is outstripped by the fall in #publicsector wages (in real terms)... this alongside greater remaining unionisation gives us the context for the #strike action(s), even if the reasons are wider than just pay
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While I'm sure no-one here thinks the #strikers are rabble-rousing anti-social lefties seeking to disrupt our wonderful system, it nevertheless is worth reading these first-hand accounts of the desperate circumstances that have driven people onto the #picketlines
#SupportTheStrikes
#SupportOurNurses
#SupportourTeachers
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/21/why-we-strike-workers-reasons-joining-picket-line-britains-new-winter-discontent -
Maybe someone could explain to Steve Barclay that increasing NHS workers wages isn’t taking money away from patient care: it’s investing in it. Who does he think delivers patient care???
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Following on from yesterday's data on the donations to the #Tories received from private #healthcare... here's some evidence of what it has bought: an #NHS crisis that it pushing people towards paying for health care... follow the money: donations = policy of NHS defunding = increased 'demand' for private health!
THE NHS IS NOT SAFE IN TORY HANDS
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Three charts (from @financialtimes) that lie behind the current #strikes;
This is why a strategy of further constraints on strikes will do nothing but poor petrol on the flames of discontent!
Only when the Govt realises that after over a decade of #austerity & defunding of #publicservices have they stoked the fires of the very strikes they are annoyed about, will the tide turn;
Of course for the #Tories this data confirms the success of their #classwar!
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Just for the avoidance of any doubt
#SupportTheStrikes
#supportyourpostie
#SupportOurNurses
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I can't see #UKStrikes being resolved until after the anniversary of the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Reason being inflation will naturally fall once we get past that point in time.
In turn, govt will have something to point to along the lines of "they're demanding x% but inflation is only 3%!"
So they will refuse to negotiate until the inflationary picture is different. Ignoring that prices will remain higher.
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Posts in support of our over-stretched but hard working #NHS often have tags like these:
#NHSIsBroken #NHSCrisis #NHSStrikes #NursesStrike
Let’s instead use ones that linger in the mind with a nudge toward action and support and cannot be interpreted as supporting structural change (i.e. privatisation)?
Try some of these in your next post:
#FundTheNHS #SupportOurNurses #SupportTheStrikes #FairPayForTheNHS #LessClappingMorePay
and let’s control the narrative.
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Everything I'm reading tells me that the NHS is in a state of sheer catastrophe, being overwhelmed by all kinds of seasonal illnesses and covid backlogs.
I am also reading that we should be afraid of another variant of covid very soon...
Where the fuck is the Government and why have they washed their hands of us all?
#nhs999 #SOSNHS #ToriesOut #GTTO #FBPE #FBPA #covid #NHS #criticalincident #TorySewageParty #ToryLiars #ToryDerelictionOfDuty #ToryBastards #ToryMurderers #SupportTheStrikes
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" 'Beats me how you fellows remember how to do all this stuff, said Ridcully, still watching him with what Ponder considered to be amused interest.
Oh, it's largely intuitive, Archchancellor, said Ponder, 'Obviously you have to spend a lot of time learning it first, though.' "
Terry Pratchett; Hogfather
#DiscWorld #SupportTheNurses #SupportTheParamedics #SupportTheStrikes 💙 -
While #doctors & #nurses died while giving care to the infected during the #coronavirus #pandemic, members of the government attended parties, gropped in cupboards & generally ignored the rules they had set... now (NOW!!!) they have the gall to claim that #healthcare professionals are not putting their patients first
#SupportOurNurses
#SupportTheStrikes
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So #SteveBarclay has said (in the press) that striking #NHS staff have made a 'conscious choice' to inflict harm on patients.... this is all a bit rich, since #Tory policy for at least a decade has been a 'conscious choice' to defund the NHS & thereby 'encourage' the use of private #healthcare.
If the strikers *have* made a conscious choice its to call a halt to the bullish*t & damage successive Tory Health Ministers have visited upon the NHS!
#SupportOurNurses
#SupportTheStrikes
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The pious warnings about the safety of #patients coming from some #NHS leaders & govt. ministers are a bit late;
#ambulance drivers & #paramedics, #nurses & #doctors have been warning about these dangers (which have been pretty clear for all to see) for years
the dangers are not caused by the #strikes they are the direct result of the #Tory defunding of the NHS... the news media need to do more to call them out on this hypocrisy!
#SupportOurNurses
#SaveOurNHS
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This from 'All on the Board' at the other place, sums up how many of us feel!
#SupportOurNurses
#SupportTheStrikes
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"Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea." 😷
Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman; Good Omens
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Unlimited funds for blokes to kick balls around. Millionaires allowed to draw salaries & claim expenses from the public purse. Foodbanks on the rise & desperate for supplies. BBC News thinks nothing of broadcasting some of the vilest comments ever made by a white man about a black woman.
Meanwhile nurses, other NHS staff & the rest of us are told to be satisfied with what we have, little though that may be.
This is Britain today. Lord, in your mercy…
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Sir John who? #LBC he hasn’t got a clue @[email protected] #NHSWorkersNeedAPayrise #NHSStrikes #railstrike #posties
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" 'Why, Gytha Ogg,' said Granny, 'I thought you despised riches!'
'Right, so I'd like to get the chance to despise them up close.',
'But I knows you, Gytha Ogg. Money'd spoil you.' 'I'd just like the chance to prove that it wouldn't, that's all I'm saying.' "
Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
#DiscWorld #ToryGaslighting #ClassWars #SupportTheStrikes
