As part of a wave of wage strikes, given rising inflation, this week it was the turn of young doctors to denounce the 26% loss of real wages in the last 15 years. The government announced it would not provide any increases. Meanwhile, other sectors such as nursing continued to struggle and rejected increases offered far below inflation.
That young doctor of all English They launched a new one on Tuesday four day strike in the struggle to improve wages, as part of a wave of strikes that swept through the UK for months. Young workers from National Health System (NHS) reported losing a large part of their pay due to a raise inflation and have hourly wages close to the poverty line.
The doctors, affiliated with the British Medical Association (BMA), have been on duty at the hospital from 7am on Tuesday and will remain on strike until 7am on Saturday. Is the longest strike since the strike wave began last year.
It is estimated that about 350,000 appointments will be cancelledincluding operations, as a result of a strike, which have been classified as most important in the history of healthcare.
That BMA claims that young doctors in England have experienced a Wage cuts of 26% in real terms since 2008/09 because wage increases have been below inflation.
Unions have called for the restoration of full wages which the government says will amount to a 35% salary increase.and that he has announced that he is not willing to give.
A junior doctor without seniority has a salary £29,384 a yearwhich implies that for a 40 hour work week the actual salary is £14.09 per hourwhile the legal minimum wage is £10.42. This is why workers are asking for an increase in their starting wage of £5 per hour to £19 per hour.
The strike comes within the framework of a wave of shutdowns that have hit the UK since late last year due to rising inflation and which have resulted in strikes on railroads, oil tankers, wharves, teachers, bus and ambulance drivers, Amazon workers and healthcare workers, among others. . The nurses came from a hard struggle with strikes and pickets and for the first time managed to get the government of Rishi Sunak to offer a raise. However, the government’s offer is far from the inflation rate and let go of the big ones campaign to reject the deal. This campaign can be expanded to other guilds, indicating a growing dissatisfaction with employers (whether state or private) who have refused to grant pay increases wages or provide them far below inflation.
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