Mastodawn

Well, as always when a Govt. & top managers have lost trust of a public sector work-force, and fail to settle a long running industrial dispute, the next step is pretty much always the consideration of a ban on striking altogether.

So, you'll be unsurprised that NHS senior managers, after three years of on-off conflict with Resident Doctors, are asking Wes Streeting to consider a legal ban on strikes by doctors. Streeting has so far demurred but how much longer?

#NHS #doctors #politics
h/t FT

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Raymond Russell 1d ago

@ChrisMayLA6
The classic paradox, workers so vital you consider removing their ability to strike but not vital enough that you can pay them what they are worth.

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Chip Butty

@raymierussell @ChrisMayLA6 I look forward to the recruitment crisis when we hear all the doctors are leaving the country or the NHS

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WanWizard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱1d ago

@otfrom @raymierussell @ChrisMayLA6 Given the level of vacancies in the NHS, I think we've been there for a while.

Problem is that this is accelerating the move to privatisation, and the creation of a two-tier system, moving from a "strongest shoulders cary the most" to a "only if you can afford it" system.

Which may well have been the plan all along, certainly on the right (and that includes Blue Labour).