Nurses taking Strike Action

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AIBU to believe the public will be supportive of Nurses taking Strike Action ?
Nurses are being asked to vote YES to strike action by the biggest nurses union RCN
www.rcn.org.uk/Get-Involved/Campaign-with-us/Fair-Pay-for-Nursing/Latest-updates

To correct your ludicrous idea that the NHS has money to burn!🤦🏻‍♀️ Not because I am opening discussion for other government spending initiatives

You’ve proven to me how clueless and uneducated you are on the topic. I’m done - can only hope the general public are more switched on than you are when they decide whether to support public sector workers or not

I'm a public sector worker...

Sorry, my mistake - that only applies to Friday/Saturday or Sunday/Monday shifts. I had mis-read and you do have my apologies.

www.nhsemployers.org/articles/unsocial-hours-payments

That cannot be true, because we have had at least a decade of pay freezes and below inflation pay rises, so by your own logic, inflation should be very low right now.

Or is the war in Ukraine and supply chain issues from Asia driving inflation?
Why would an inflation matching pay rise drive inflation? there is no extra money in the economy, taking inflation into account.

Funny how Tories support pay rises for MPs, bankers and won't tax share, investment dividends and CGT at the same rate as income tax (though its income!) but everyone else can go without.

How would you have paid for the large number of hospitals that got built under PFI ?

Or would you have stuck with the largely 1940s and 50s estate the NHS still had after 18 years of the Tories, who did what they always do and ran down the NHS in the 80s and 90s, giving tax cuts with NS oil (much of which went overseas) instead of investing in the UK,
then what did they do with £billions of public assets sold? where did that money go? not on NHS rail or roads let alone social care.

Maybe you would have added it to the nation debt and then seen interest rate payments on that go through the roof after the various Tory financial disasters they ve given us.

And as I’ve already tried to explain to you - it doesn’t apply to Friday or Sunday night shifts either. On a Friday night shift you’re paid the same rate of time plus 30% for the whole night. On a Sunday night shift you’re paid Sunday rate 19:30 until midnight and then normal night shift pay of time plus 30% from midnight to 08:00.
You’re so clueless it’s embarrassing.