Thuirsdays strike

[mumsie_wumsie]

Does any one know whether the doctors are striking on Thursday. I have heard rumours but not for sure.

[factor-fiction]

Why would they be striking?

[mumsie_wumsie]

Well I wouldn't think they would,or have any reason to. Buit you know, rumours!!!

[wakeover]

Teachers are on strike, NOT Doctors. And that's final.

[youngmafbog]

Doctors tend not to be a bunch of self righteous lefties like teachers.

[B00]

"Teachers are on strike, NOT Doctors. And that's final. "

well that's you told isn't it? LOL

[Sqad]

youngmafbog

<<<Doctors tend not to be a bunch of self righteous lefties like teachers.>>>

Don't you believe it...there are plenty of "lefties" in the medical profession.

[mumsie_wumsie]

hahaha I stand corrected!!!! Surgeries open as usual then.....

[Hopkirk]

Are you planning to be ill on Thursday?

[mumsie_wumsie]

You never know Hopkirk, but with the kids of school,there will probably be some accident prone ones around.

[McMouse]

Just had my operation cancelled again........must be because the bleeders are going on strike.

[237SJ]

I`ve just heard UK Boarder Agency are going on strike as well. I pity the poor people in the queues at airport immigration. On the bright side, it might be a good time to stock up on excessive amounts of duty free!

[237SJ]

*Border*

[Quizmonster]

As ever, Youngmafbog goes off half-cocked. The medical profession was not noted for its left-leaning tendencies in the 1940s, though things may be different now, as Sqad suggests.
When Aneurin Bevan (Labour) was introducing the NHS late in that decade, someone asked him how he had managed to get the doctors to stop whingeing and accept the plans. He replied, "I stuffed their mouths with gold!" In other words, he paid them to shut up. Is there any reason why medicine should be the only profession so treated?

[andy-hughes]

youngmafbog - attempting to secure your right to a decent pension to which you have contributed during your working life in a career which requires a university degree to even be considered as a candidate, and which involves years of training, experience, and serious hard work does not make you 'self righteous', or indeed, a 'leftie'.

[Sqad]

andy is correct....ant to add to Quizmonster.......

NHS doctors have a decent salary and is not performance related, this is for life, generous holidays, sick leave and study leave, a deal struck with the Labour Government in 2006 which gave them more money for less work............why should they strike?

Financial rewards for reducing patient responsibility to enter into medical politics...........their generous pensions guaranteed and ring fenced supported by the tax payer...........why should they strike.

A Labour Government will always support the doctors and the NHS irrespective as to whether it is affordable.............and now it isn't and never has been.

[gina32]

not all teachers are on strike

[Booldawg]

lest we forget the people outside the public sector that have experienced pay cuts, overtime bans, changes in working conditions, poor pension perfomance and the risk of redundancy since 2008!

Regardless of whether doctors, teachers etc. are vehemently left-wing isnt up for debate - unions certainly are. The call for strike action is partly due to the changes made by goverment and the fact the unions always have done and always will do itch for a fight with the tories.

[andy-hughes]

Booldawg, I don't think the unions 'itch for a fight with the tories' - i think by definition, any union is prepared to fight for its members, that's its raison d'etre.

That doesn't mean it has to be the Tories - anyone who looks to erode the rights of working people will find a union willing to stand up to them - and their political pursuasion is not the issue.

[Sqad]

andy is correct....remember the "Winter of Discontent" against a Labour Government.

[Bobbisox]

sheer nonsense in this economic climate for anyone to strike, there is NO money in the pot