Looks like a junior doctors strike is coming. Reasonable or unreasonable?

[Erica56]

www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-contracts/pay/junior-doctors-pay-scales/fair-pay-for-junior-doctors-in-england

[Rowthe]

They are not unreasonable

[StoneofDestiny]

Perfectly reasonable. Support them.

[Theimpossiblegirl]

Totally reasonable

[vodkaredbullgirl]

Over worked and under paid

[CasperGutman]

Reasonable. And many other groups of reasonable people who never thought they would strike will be considering doing just that this winter.

[bakewellbride]

Reasonable. I think there should also be a paramedic strike.

[Quitelikeit]

Public services in this country are on their knees

unless you work in them you can’t begin to understand what a joke and farce the services are becoming

[ArcticSkewer]

General Strike is coming, not just Junior Doctors.

[pointythings]

Fully reasonable. Alongside pretty much every part of the public sector considering strike action. This government is a disgrace.

[Thedogscollar]

100% support my colleagues. Nurses and midwives being balloted also.
This time enough really is enough 😡

[Gassylady]

Completely reasonable. Pay does not reflect their responsibilities, long working hours with horrible rota patterns and massive student debts. Junior doctors are often in their late twenties or thirties with the same family commitments as everyone else and often have to travel long distances to required hospital placements with extra costs that that entails.

[PeppaPigOinkOinkOink]

Completely reasonable. Nurses next, I'll be voting to strike as a nurse. The conditions we are all working in, as health care professionals, is atrocious.

[RoseAndRose]

Is it for full on strike, or work to rule?

[Exasperatednow]

Yep reasonable.

[Erica56]

Full on strike.

I fully support them. Enough is enough

[Northernlurker]

Well I work in the nhs and I don't think it's reasonable. Yes they are underpaid but if they aren't at work people are going to die. This is not 6 years ago, we can't absorb this safely. It's a total nightmare.

[BeetyAxe]

Absolutely they should strike. We need doctors and nurses to be well rested and have enough income to reduce stress elsewhere in their lives- I.e. through hiring cleaners or nannies etc, so that they will a) stay working in the NHS and b) have the energy and headspace to dedicate to their jobs. This will benefit all of us.

[noblegiraffe]

@Northernlurker

Well I work in the nhs and I don't think it's reasonable. Yes they are underpaid but if they aren't at work people are going to die. This is not 6 years ago, we can't absorb this safely. It's a total nightmare.

Then they should be paid better, shouldn't they?

The govt can avoid strike action.

[BeetyAxe]

@Northernlurker people are dying anyway, and will continue to do so unless there is more incentive for intelligent people to join the NHS as doctors. Otherwise they will take their abilities and work somewhere more lucrative and less stressful.

[CordeliaNaismithVorkosigan]

Reasonable. The pay is so out of whack with the responsibility that it’s laughable.

[RoseAndRose]

Lets hope it doesn't coincide with a covid spike or a new variant

[girlmom21]

Reasonable. Doctors work bloody hard and they deserve to be treated properly

[2pinkginsplease]

Totally support them, having just had a relative in hospital very unwell these doctors and junior doctors work their arses off. Junior doctors are over worked and underpaid and unless something is done the NHS are going to have a huge shortage of doctors to treat patients. This needs sorted to encourage more people into this profession,

[the80sweregreat]

I support them.

[Unescorted]

Totally reasonable. Everyone has the right to withhold their labour.