Gemma Abbott

When you read the news about forthcoming nurses’ strikes - worth remembering this 👇

Nurses are currently earning 2% LESS in real terms than they did in 2010

Solidarity ✊

#NursesStrike #IndustrialAction #Strikes #PublicSectorPay #UKPolitics

https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-of-the-day/2022/11/nurses-strike-pay-earning-less

Nurses are still earning less in real terms than in 2010

As strikes approach, nurses’ pay is 2 per cent less than it was 12 years ago after accounting for inflation.

New Statesman
Nov 9, 2022 at 5:10pmWeb
Show threadGemma AbbottNov 10, 2022

Many nurses simply cannot afford to eat - or feed their families - on the wages they receive

What else can they do but strike?

You can’t eat claps

Solidarity ✊

#UKPolitics #NursesStrike #CostOfLivingCrisis #FoodBanks #JoinAUnion

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/10/nurses-among-rising-numbers-of-workers-using-food-banks-research-shows

Nurses among rising numbers of workers using food banks, research shows

Trussell Trust figures reveal one in five referrals to its centres were from households where someone worked

The Guardian
Show threadPete [sarmism]Nov 10, 2022
@gem_abbott here here
Show threadGerald Alan 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺Nov 10, 2022
@gem_abbott
Regarding nurses industrial action, I expect the gov to spew out lots of misleading figures and to say things like ‘now is not the time’. Solidarity ✊🏻
Show threadArtemisNov 10, 2022
@gem_abbott absolutely. Solidarity to all taking action ✊
Show threadSteve0Nov 10, 2022
@gem_abbott cue day after day of misinformation and dog whistling from the usual suspects… Harwood, Ferrari JHB, Pearson and the rest. The only fact we need to know is that nurses have never done this before. This is a sign of their desperation to feel valued enough to stay, their desire to protect their patients and keep them safe, to be able to provide the standard of care they deserve in the face of a 12 year attack on the institution they love
Show threadJude JacksonNov 10, 2022

@gem_abbott

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/11/09/rnvh-n09.html

UK: Royal College of Nursing votes to strike

If the strike is to be won, or even to go ahead at all, independent rank-and-file committees must be built to lead the struggle. Left in the hands of the RCN apparatus, it will be defeated.

World Socialist Web Site
Show threadLady de LanceleveeNov 10, 2022
@gem_abbott will be supporting it
Show threadFreddieNov 10, 2022
@gem_abbott thank you, none of us in the profession take they prospect of strike action lightly. Patient safety is our first priority but enough is enough, we can't go on like this.
Show threadLizzie Speaks Too SoonNov 9, 2022
@gem_abbott they should give the nurses whatever they want
Show threadNeil Macpherson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Nov 9, 2022
@gem_abbott
2010 - when the current regime came to power in WM, with the intention of ending the NHS.
Show threadUbiquitous PhotonNov 9, 2022

@gem_abbott
And not like its an easy, low skill or even low demand job. Anyone who thinks so should try doing it.

We all need care sooner or later, and we should really want those people that have to do it to be well trained and well compensated for the essential job that they do, for the good of that care.

Solidarity ✊

Show threadmattNov 10, 2022

@gem_abbott it's so frustrating hearing Sunak keep saying he's on the side of working people and but not on the side of strikers.

Like who does he think is striking??

(Yes, I know they're probably being deliberately disingenuous when doing that, it still annoys me to no end)

Show threadomz2468Nov 10, 2022
But the usual right wing suspects don't think they deserve it but were cheering the 45% tax rate being proposed to be cut to 40% during the short lived Truss government.
Show threadPlaytimes OverNov 10, 2022
@gem_abbott I support the nurses 100%