To ask if you support the proposed strike by Nursing and Midwifery staff?

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For the first time in I think 32 years nursing staff have voted to go on strike and midwives, having never voted to strike in their history will be joining them in a four hour walkout from 7am on 13th October.

The NHS pay review recommended a 1% pay rise across the board, yet government decided they could ignore this and only award the rise to those at the top of their band and would take it away again next year. Despite awarding themselves an 11% pay rise after proclaiming they couldn't possibly ignore their review bodies recommendation.

Essential services will still be covered, eg Delivery suite, ITU etc.

Do you support the staff? If you are a frontline healthcare worker will you be striking? I'm not due to work that day but I will be at the picket line showing my support.

The Francis report clearly outlines the failures within the NHS, (Some which pertains to staff attitude) when the governing bodies and the staff implement the recommendations as outlined in the report then there may be a case for asking the public and the government that represents them for a pay rise.
And I suggest doing some research on the public pensions deficit to see whether the NHS pension is lucrative and whether it is actually affordable..

Your response is atypical of the kind of attitude displayed by certain members of staff who seem incapable of handling any criticism...

"Your response is atypical of the kind of attitude displayed by certain members of staff who seem incapable of handling any criticism..."

a good thing, surely?

I'll be six days before my due date on the 13th and I am totally in support.

The trouble is Frances that a pension is worth very very little when you don't have the opportunity to draw on it, pension age will probably be 70 by the time I retire. Its not such a good deal when your struggling with rent and food bills, and yet still put into this magical pot.

frankboughYou seem to be the lone dissenting voice, I wonder why that is.

Ha...Flexible working doesn't exist!!! I was turned down for set working hours to plan my childcare after 24 years NHS working, so I left.
I wholeheartedly support them, four hours isn't enough.

Yes, I do.

I support this strike although if my baby hasn't arrived by the 13th I will be worried as I doubt I would get my planned home birth.

I support it too, the frontline staff in the NHS deserve decent pay, if the NHS needs to save money they should stop all this backdoor privatisation.

I support them all 100% Fucking Tories deny them a 1% pay rise after is it 3 years of pay freeze which is effectively a pay cut. They work so hard and are so important. Far more so than fat cat politicians who think they deserve an 11% increase as well as their expenses.

Please can we all remember that David Cameron personally promised to increase the number of midwives. What happened to that...?

My pension contributions are stratospheric compared to my husbands private pension (which his company also pays into). I pay approx 4x as much out of my wages on a monthly basis than he does. Also there is no 'part time' option, so despit not quite working full time I pay just as much as a full timer into the pot.

i support them
midwives would not go on strike unless for very good reason.
(i think money should be thrown at midwives for better training as well)

100%

No because babies/ mothers and vulnerable patients could die or come to serious harm as a a result of a strike.

Good on them.

Soontobe six - I think a greater number have come to harm through Tory ongoing policies - can you think of alternative methods of direct action?

Of course! These people give up their lives to help save ours and those of our children. Why would we not? I don't want it to get to the same point as teaching where all the good ones are leaving (mostly).

I support the firefighters too... Ridiculous what they are being told to do.

My support for them here too. I am unable to fathom how anyone, let alone remuneration committees, could think that this is a good idea.

1% is an insult in my mind too.

I support them. (This is a strike, with essential services covered. If it we're a walk out I could not...but I would be gobsmacked if the nurses and midwives ever voted for one of those, as they care about patient safety).

Completely support them. The way they are treated by Gov.uk is atrocious and insulting, especially when you consider how those SOBs treat themselves.

I support firefighters too. It's appalling the way this government are treating the most essential workers in society.

Babies are dying already due to low staffing levels and over stretched staff.

100% support

support them 100%, it's an outrage how they're being treated

Pay rises of double-digits for MPs. Everyone else can go to the wall.