Nicky Eaden - up the workers

Message of support from Nicky Eaden to the Birmingham bin workers on strike - https://x.com/UniteEconomy/status/1948307168777949292

 

I'm ignorant here, I thought the situation in Brum had been sorted! Nice one Nicky!

 

I thought it had too. In other news junior doctors are set to strike again wanting a 29% pay rise as opposed to the 5.4% offered

 

It's called a bargaining position.

 

At the minute the workers aren't even after pay rises anymore. It's restorative they want. Wages have dropped way behind what they currently should be

 

Not happy with your lot in life? Join a union

was at a party with some medics just before Christmas and one of em showed mr their pay slip after deductions I can’t remember take home exactly but between 1600 and 1700. If I were being paid anywhere near that for the job they do you bet I’d be striking.

 

I totally get the point that doctors' pay has fallen substantially in real terms from 2010 to 2024 and that the 29% they are asking for would restore their pay to what it should be. However, everybody in the public sector is in the same boat. Under the current deal, the junior doctors get 5.4% this year; more than most people. I think they need to wait till the economy can afford to pay them what they want.

 

What if it never can?

I don’t know about doctors so much but my missis as a nurse gets chased all the time from agencies trying to get her to take jobs overseas so i would imagine doctors get it far more. These jobs usually hover around 50% more than she is on. There are already tens of thousands of jobs that are unfilled in the NHS as medics go abroad. Failing to pay a competitive wage will just make that worse.

The Govt could suggest other things. Student loan forgiveness and then making uni free for medics might be something that would reduce to a degree pay demands. To do nothing will be a disaster.

 

I agree with all that. I'd go further and say tgat student loans should be scrapped altogether and replaced by grants and parental contributions like it was when I did my degree in the 70s. The problem is that the rich are pandered to because government is scared to tax the m properly. The most likely outcome is that ordinary people on modest pay will bear the load....

 

And stop pushing the narrative that you NEED a university education to succeed cos you quite clearly do not.

 

No excuse. Staff should be paid their dues in respect to their value of work. Companies don't undersell their products to reflect any national finance downturn, do they? They just keep right on regardless.

Fight on

 

I'm not pushing any narrative about university education mate.