#Solidarity with the @sagaftra , #WGA #strikers
https://www.fightbacknews.org/2023/9/4/solidarity-sag-aftra-wga-strikers
#hollywood #labor #wages #unions

Another fall in the number of student #nurses accepted onto nursing courses; down from 19,520 in 2021, to 15,420 this week.

One more ripple from the #tories' wilful wrecking of the NHS:

Force Nurses on strike;
demonised them & insult them, while offering a poor settlement to get exhausted #strikers back to work;
continue to defund the NHS, causing over-work, strain & burn-out for staff...

Watch people think, perhaps this isn't the career for me.

aha, more private #healthcare is the answer!

Anyway, fuck the #CEOs and other #execs. #Support the #strikers. :antifa_100:

Its sort of consistent but it also feels unjust; allowing #tax thresholds to remain frozen via 'fiscal drag', #JeremyHunt has ensured that those #strikers & #workers who do manage to achieve pay rises (#inflation matched or not) there is the danger that they will find some of that rise taken by the tax at a higher rate;

more & more of us are becoming higher-rate taxpayers which on one level will help fund the state but on the other seem like over-taxing many just above average earners!

Finally, finally the #NHS has a #workforce plan which involves a doubling of the training places for #Doctors & #nurses.

This is (perhaps) a decade late, but welcome nonetheless. However, now the Q. is how to retain them once they've been trained?

Here's an idea:
listen to the #strikers & pay NHS staff properly!

as has been demonstrated conclusively by the #Tories defunding of the #healthservice, you cannot have a world class #publichealth system on the cheap.

#SupportTheStrikes

#WGA #strikers, students tell #Warner CEO: ‘Pay your #writers’
https://www.workers.org/2023/05/71248/

I suspect the media onslaught on the #JuniorDoctors will get pretty bad this week, with reporters seeking out fatalities to lay at the feet of #strikers.

If you start wavering remember, the Junioi Doctors have been forced into this position;

the media should have been attacking the #Tories engineering of the #healthcrisis through defunding the #NHS.

That they will likely now turn on the strikers, not on the Govt. will tell you what you need to know about our supine media!

#SupportTheStrikes

So why do the government expect #strikers to offer a compromise before any negotiation starts? The only reason that #NHSstrikes are happening is because successive pay impositions have degraded the value of junior doctors pay by (they claim) 35%. Surely if the government's attempts at pay negotiation have resulted in an overwhelming call for strike action then they, the government, need to make a reasonable first offer?

After some time it seems #RishiSunakPM & his cabinet have been unable to convince the majority of the UK public (#voters) that the #strikers are the enemy... rather support for most strikes remains strong.

Of course, the moves to now settle (or at least appear to be interested in settling) the disputes are informed by these figures, but, as I keep noting:

Importantly, without budget support any 'settlement' is just #austerity, with an intent of later blaming strikers for #publicservice cuts!

Mario Strikers: Battle League é atualizado para a versão 1.3.2 para corrigir travamentos

Confira! 👇
http://www.reinodocogumelo.com/feeds/665917122148001736/comments/default

#Switch #Strikers #Notícias

#France #pension protests: Fuel deliveries blocked by #strikers

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64870836

I'm not sure the Govt. understands how negotiations work... no sensible #Union is going to call off #strikes on the mere promise of talks, especially when the counter party has a long record of lying & acting in bad faith...

#SupportTheStrikes by continuing to remember the party causing the disruption is the Govt. not the #strikers who finally said #EnoughIsEnough!

Aha, so #JeremyHunt looks to be preparing to continue #austerity by stealth.... by using a low forecast of #inflation as a base for his 'commitment' to increase public spending by 1% a year.

This on top of demanding that pay rises to striking #publicsector #strikers are paid out of existing budget (requiring other budget cuts) means that austerity will continue to bite & progressive destroy our public sector, with continuing adverse effects on the UK economy overall

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/27/uk-government-is-hiding-28bn-of-stealth-cuts-to-public-services-says-report

As the #Teachers strikes continue some Heads are becoming the #education sector equivalent of a comprador class, and by naming the #strikers to (some) unsympathetic parents have clearly been instructed to sow discord in their local #school communities.

For the Heads this looks like a long-term mistake, as antagonising further your #workfoce will cast a shadow over the return to post-strike #teaching... if Heads are choosing sides, then they need to choose their staff!

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/feb/25/heads-accused-of-throwing-colleagues-under-a-bus-by-naming-striking-staff

It seems #RishiSunakPM finally may(!!) be considering back-dated pay rises for #strikers in the #publicsector...

but as before this is so much hogwash if #JeremyHunt continues to hold the line that all pyrites must come from within existing/settled budgets... if so, this is just another run at defunding public services (most crucially the #NHS) & will merely shift the problem from one aspect of the (various) public services' organisation to another...

#SupportTheStrikes
#SupportOurNurses

This will go down well with nurses, train employees, teachers etc
MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for 'dramatically increased' duties last year
https://news.sky.com/story/mps-to-get-2-200-pay-rise-from-april-after-boris-johnson-urged-restraint-12554941
#MPsPayRise #Strikers

#Strikers unite across #England: ‘Our disputes may be separate but we have one aim’

Voices from picket lines and protests in Bristol, Birmingham and London on a day of mass industrial action

School and train #strikes – latest news updates

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/01/strikers-england-picket-line-voices-bristol-birmingham-london

#solidarity

Patrick Blower on #keirstarmer #RishiSunak and the #strikers - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Martin Rowson on #RishiSunak and the #strikers - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Today I took part in #industrialaction for the first time, choosing to join my #PCS comrades on the #picketline for a day of national #strike action! 🚩

This is not something me, or my colleagues in the public sector have taken likely, forgoing a days pay will have an impact on #workers across the country.

To bring about the change needed to protect #pay #pensions and #conditions is to continue to strike and strike again!

#SOLIDARITY and #VICTORY to #STRIKERS ✊🏼

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64481052