Did you 'strike' on 21st June?
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Re: Did you 'strike' on 21st June?
posted at 22/6/2012 9:07 AM BST
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There was not a "strike" - there was industrial action but every doctor who should have been at work was at work as was intended all along. Up to 60% of GP practices in Scotlnd to part in the action but haven't seen the full figures for hospitals in Scotland yet although I believe 3200 out-patient appointments and 450 in-patient procedures were cancelled. |
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Re: Did you 'strike' on 21st June?
posted at 22/6/2012 10:14 AM BST
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The media were all over the place with this. The Mail and Express making it sound a lot worse that it actually was and the Telegraph and Evening Standard saying that the actual number of doctors who were on industrial action was very low, as low as 8%. |
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Re: Did you 'strike' on 21st June?
posted at 22/6/2012 10:25 AM BST
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My figures were those given by Nicola Sturgeon, Health Minister and Deputy First Minister in the Scottish Parliament, at First Minister's Questions yesterday. I think there is no doubt that the level of action was significantly higher in Scotland than south of the border. |
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Re: Did you 'strike' on 21st June?
posted at 22/6/2012 11:40 AM BST
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I don't think anyone was on strike and there probably weren't that many things cancelled or postponed. Those people who were booked in had whatever that was needed done - probably no new routine things were added after the strike was announced. sadian |
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Re: Did you 'strike' on 21st June?
posted at 22/6/2012 11:42 AM BST
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I worked the night shift last night, providing 13 hours of emergency care. There was limited action at our hospital as we are a children's hospital, but large numbers of staff were wearing the badges, stickers and wrist bands. On another connected note... Was there actually any attempt to negotiation from the government? I couldn't find any mention in the press this morning if there was... Why is negotiation with tanker and bus drivers worthy of the new, but not negotiations or lack of for doctors ? |
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Re: Did you 'strike' on 21st June?
posted at 22/6/2012 12:41 PM BST
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Hi DrS - I think the answer to your question is that, from a Government point of view, this is an ideological battle. The Cabinet is stuffed with multi-millionaires, as is the Tory party generally. Many of them do not use public services (choosing instead private education, private healthcare, private transport, private sports clubs, etc.) and do not believe in publically-funded services let alone good public-sector pensions. They are employed in a deliberate and calculated race to the bottom and a society where the responsibility for securing your income in retirement rests away from employers and into the hands of employees alone. Private sector pensions used to be good until private industry started syphoning money out of pension schemes into company profits, directors pay deals and shareholders dividends. The Government's response to this is that because private sector pensions are now rubbish public sector pensions should be too. If you want to see it as part of a bigger picture then eroding away the terms and conditions of the public sector makes it a much more attractive proposition for the private sector to take over the work of the public sector because the last barrier to them competing - the good T & Cs in the public sector - will have been removed. |
