Thousands of doctors in England They started a three-day strike on Monday in a British hospital to demand a raiseearly in strike week.
In recent months, the strike affected to various sectors in the UKwhere inflation exceeds 10 percent.
worker from trains, nurses, border police, teachers and other groups they went on strike to increase demand, while food and energy prices soared.
The government began to negotiate, among others, with nurses and railroad workers. However on Wednesday, the day the government presents its budgetcould be one of the biggest strike days in years.
The doctors threw protests Monday and union members British Medical Association (BMA) put up pickets in front of the hospital.
According to the BMA, doctor have lost 26 percent of their salary significantly since 2008when savings are introduced in health care.
The union launched a campaign claiming that maids were paid more than interns. The latter costs around 14 pounds (about 315 Mexican pesos) per hour, according to the BMA.
“Thanks to this government, you can get more out of serving coffee than saving patients,” one slogan read.
“I thought being a doctor would make me financially independent, but it’s not,” says Becky Bates, a recent medical graduate from central England.
“With college loans and personal loans, I came out of medical school with over £100,000 in debt. Now I can’t even afford to fix my car if something goes wrong with my paycheck,” he lamented.
He National Health Service (NHS) plunged into a deep crisis by austerity policies and the consequences of the pandemic and on 6 February experienced the biggest strike since its founding in 1948.
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