According to the Secretary of State for British Health, 70,000 medical appointments could be lost due to this unprecedented social movement for the nursing union.
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Against the background of record inflation and drop in purchasing power, the United Kingdom is experiencing an unprecedented social movement. Thursday, December 15, the British nurses went on strike to claim increases in the face of prices and the crisis of the public health system.
Nearly 100,000 of them participate in this strike, the first in the hundred and six years of history of their union, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), reflecting the magnitude of dissatisfaction across the Channel. The movement, which must be renewed on December 20, concerns England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
He intervenes in a period of rare social tensions when approaching the holidays. Railway workers in the border police, many professional categories will be on strike at the end of the year, shaking up the projects of certain British. The approximately 115,000 Royal Mail employees (La Poste, privatized in the early 2010s) were on Wednesday and Thursday, during the period of numerous gift orders. 2> less 20 % of power Purchase since 2010 2>
The conservative government, in difficulty in the polls, is relentless, promising to legislate to reduce the power of unions and refusing to get involved in the negotiations. But the caregiver movement constitutes a challenge because the sympathy of opinion is great for employees of the free public health system (NHS), long national pride and leashed by ten years of austerity then the pandemic.
The nurses are asking for an increase in wages representing just over 19 % to catch up with years of scarcity that have resulted, for the RCN, by a drop in their purchasing power of 20 % since 2010 and the arrival Conservatives in power. A request deemed “unaffordable” by the government.
“We are with you”, title Thursday the daily newspaper The Daily Mirror, echoing a British population, which is mainly favorable to the snorkeling of nurses according to the polls. “Their fight is our fight,” says the British tabloid in a tweet.
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The Secretary of State for Health and former nurse Maria Caulfield announced on Sky News on Thursday, that some 70,000 medical appointments and operations were going to be lost in England due to the strike.
“I woke up this morning with a broken heart as a infirmarian,” said RCN secretary general, Pat Cullen, believing that it was “tragic have had to lead the profession to the strike so that our voices are heard “.
In a United Kingdom in the midst of the cost of living, with inflation above 10 %, nurses’ representatives say that their members jump meals, struggle to feed and dress their families and end up leaving en masse the NHS. “The workload is horrible. The nurses are burnt, they cannot provide safe service to patients,” recently explained to the France-Presse Mark Boothroyd agency, emergency nurse at Saint-Thomas Hospital in London. According to him, many newcomers in the profession leave it because of the low wages, placing those who remain under intense pressure.