A thread to express solidarity with any nurses taking strike action today.
Listening to your concerns it sounds like you are working in intolerable conditions, trying to cover for inadequate staffing and facing increasing abuse from the public for being unable to provide the service that they need.
Given the huge number of nursing vacancies, if the government continues to treat the nursing profession with contempt when it comes to pay negotiations, I'd like to know what their plan is to rectify the situation. If nurses have been driven to take strike action, then something needs to change.
A healthy workforce is vital to the economy and refusing to invest in nurses and allowing the NHS to fall apart does not seem like a good plan to secure the economic future of the country.
The government seems more concerned with stopping people from being allowed to strike than it does in actually addressing the root causes of the strike action. We need them to invest in the public sector for the benefit of all, rather than spending their remaining time in government protecting their own interests.