To ask if you know about NHS workers marching for pay equality yesterday?

[BanginChoons]

As the mainstream media seems to be avoiding the topic.

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/aug/08/hundreds-march-fair-pay-nhs-nurses-coronavirus

Yes: I knew about the marches

No: I've not seen anything in the media

It was on the TV news yesterday. Terrestrial channel, can’t mind which.

No, I wasn't aware.

I was aware. It's not been ignored by the media but nor is it front-page news.

Personally with widespread redundancies, pay freezes and pay cuts in so many industries I think NHS workers may get less public support in this than they might otherwise.

I didn’t know and they weren’t far from me.

It was on ITV news, apparently a pay rise has been announced for doctors but not nurses.
These are actually separate negotiations.

Eh? It was on the BBC news.

I support our NHS and care workers massively but at a time where over half of people I know have lost their job or facing redundancies and pay cuts, I feel this is in bad taste at the moment.

Good luck to them though.

I think some of my lack of sympathy if that the NHS staff protesting were covered my a separate ph deal in 2018. Now I know many didn’t like the pay deal.

The pay rise some of the public sector got is not because of COVID Despite what people/politicians are saying. It was pretty much my standard pay rise. Okay larger than in the previous few years but it wasn’t for working during COVID or anything like that.

It was in the daily mail and/or the times

I read both so I don’t remember exactly

I didn't know about it but getting fed up of the calls for things to be equal. The public sector pay awards announced recently, sold as a reward for Covid, are the ones agreed earlier this year.

The nurses were awarded theirs a couple of years ago with a 3 year plan.

As always from a teaching perspective, they have announced the pay increase but not increased the school budgets it comes from so is either not likely to happen or will happen but will reduce budgets in schools for other things.

I agree with others at a time when they are a number of redundancies and job insecurity, and they are in the middle of a pay increase cycle it seems to be greedy - most nurses were paid overtime during the crisis something lots of other public sectors didnt get.

The guardian is mainstream media? What media outlets aren't reporting it?

A friend of mine is an ambulance driver and even he thinks this it’s wrong for them to be demanding more money at this time. I think all that clapping has maybe gone to their heads a bit.

Nope.
And I'm a health professional.

Yes was passing through Westminster and took photos.

Am not the best photographer

I only knew about the march as I was shopping and see the people. Had not heard of it before hand.

Apparently XR have been dying things red and making fountains green (Trafalgar Square?) today and that’s not really been reported much either.