NHS Strike

de niro said:
Wasn't it for 20 mins or something. Wow, damaging. Lol.
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A bit longer......

However,i would imagine minimal disruption,while still making a stand,was foremost in their thinking.

These people do not want to take such drastic action but due to circumstance they have been left no choice,i believe a work to rule is now in operation for some.
 
Radio 5 Live gave it some decent coverage in the morning. Odd that some people take the piss when , for example, a middle-aged midwife strikes for the first time in her life.
 
Mike N said:
Radio 5 Live gave it some decent coverage in the morning. Odd that some people take the piss when , for example, a middle-aged midwife strikes for the first time in her life.
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was it a strike? my lot take longer to brew up.
 
We went on strike for 4 hours from 7-11, the unions offered us the opportunity as ambulance staff to either respond to no calls or just to the most urgent life saving ones (known as red 1 and red 2 calls) everybody I know decided that we would respond to these as no one needed to die for us to get our point accross. The managers who control dispatch then just re-coded all the shit jobs we usually get as red 1/2 calls and we worked straight through, going to such emergencies as 3 year history of not taking medication correctly for chronic arthritis. The management used the fact that we have pride and professionalism in what we do and threw the strike action back in our face. We are leaving in droves and I now believe the good will we show towards our jobs is waining. There will be strike action again and maybe this time people won't be so lucky and we won't attend anything.
 
I agree with the principle of withholding labour. An independent pay review suggested a 1% increase across the board, and it was rejected by government.
An independent pay review suggested a 10% plus increase for government, and strangely that was accepted (although a few have declined it). Strange that.
 
de niro said:
Wasn't it for 20 mins or something. Wow, damaging. Lol.
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Drewmanc said:
We went on strike for 4 hours from 7-11, the unions offered us the opportunity as ambulance staff to either respond to no calls or just to the most urgent life saving ones (known as red 1 and red 2 calls) everybody I know decided that we would respond to these as no one needed to die for us to get our point accross. The managers who control dispatch then just re-coded all the shit jobs we usually get as red 1/2 calls and we worked straight through, going to such emergencies as 3 year history of not taking medication correctly for chronic arthritis. The management used the fact that we have pride and professionalism in what we do and threw the strike action back in our face. We are leaving in droves and I now believe the good will we show towards our jobs is waining. There will be strike action again and maybe this time people won't be so lucky and we won't attend anything.
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Sums management types right up, tbh. Shame that this will otherwise go unnoticed and people such as our upstanding mod will continue to take the piss.
 
Drewmanc said:
We went on strike for 4 hours from 7-11, the unions offered us the opportunity as ambulance staff to either respond to no calls or just to the most urgent life saving ones (known as red 1 and red 2 calls) everybody I know decided that we would respond to these as no one needed to die for us to get our point accross. The managers who control dispatch then just re-coded all the shit jobs we usually get as red 1/2 calls and we worked straight through, going to such emergencies as 3 year history of not taking medication correctly for chronic arthritis. The management used the fact that we have pride and professionalism in what we do and threw the strike action back in our face. We are leaving in droves and I now believe the good will we show towards our jobs is waining. There will be strike action again and maybe this time people won't be so lucky and we won't attend anything.
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Your managers are cunts. They are playing with people's lives, and your own professionalism.
 
Len Rum said:
bluemoon32 said:
The NHS workers i know just ignored the strike.
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And yet the ones I know backed it 100%.
Strange world isn't it?
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I know some who didn't 'ignore' the strike in that sense, they choose not to strike because they are front line services and wouldn't have felt right by denying treatment to their patients. The managers in the NHS play on this.

Part of the strike was asking union members not to miss any breaks, not to undertake unpaid overtime, and not to undertake jobs outside their contracted work.

I think this probably says more about their working conditions than anything else.
 
de niro said:
Wasn't it for 20 mins or something. Wow, damaging. Lol.
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Midwives weren't allowed to strike properly as they were that low on staff to begin with and had too many emergencies, Caring for mother and baby at the forefront of their minds.

Hardly a piss taking situation in my opinion.
 
Len Rum said:
de niro said:
Wasn't it for 20 mins or something. Wow, damaging. Lol.
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Not meant to be 'damaging' mate.
I think you'll find 'responsible' is the word.
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Exactly, nurses are not really allowed to strike. The NMC code of conduct basically forbids them from doing so to any meaningful ends. They can picket during their (if they are lucky) 30 minute lunch break, or come in if they are on a day off. What sort of message does it send where no-one notices any difference and the government knows there is fuck all the nurses can really do about it so will continue to take the piss and we end up with a perverse situation where nurses study for 3 years, get degrees, are responsible for peoples health and wellbeing and in some case life and death decisions yet get paid significantly less than a bus driver.

Small wonder so many head to Aus where they can be paid twice as much and our gaps are being filled by Portugal's nurses who get an even worse deal.

But it's ok, we have these nice new hospitals that are already proving unfit for purpose and handing billions over to PFI for the privilege instead of paying our nurses (at least a band 5/6) a proper wage that reflects what they do for society. And don't get me started on that shambles of the first privately run NHS hospital that is Hinchingbrooke (an enforced experiment by a pro-privatisation NHS east of england). Labour, especially, but also the Tories should hang their heads in shame.
 
Front line staff do a wonderful job on the whole, unfortunately for them the usual answer by management in the NHS is to make yet another tier of middle management pen pushers who achieve very little whilst getting paid a well tidy salary.
 
bluemoon32 said:
Front line staff do a wonderful job on the whole, unfortunately for them the usual answer by management in the NHS is to make yet another tier of middle management pen pushers who achieve very little whilst getting paid a well tidy salary.
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I'd agree with the too many managers bit, but depending on your definition of middle managers, I wouldn't say the were on a 'well tidy' salary.
 
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