I’m not sure that UNISON understands the principle of diminishing returns.
People up and down the country are being urged to take part in a mass “slow clap” to protest the measly pay rise proposed for NHS workers.
This clapping lark has gone way beyond shark jumping territory. By the time it came to an end last summer, people were already growing weary of it. The attempt to kick start it a few months later failed, so why does UNISON think it will work now?
UNISON, the public service union, has organised a “mass slow clap” protest so the public can throw its support behind doctors, nurses, and other NHS staff.
I’m one of the many who never took part anyway and will continue to not take part as I am not into religious rites of any kind. UNISON can take the sex and travel option.
In related news I received a text from my local GP surgery telling me that I had an appointment for a vaccine on Friday. I clicked on the link they sent and declined – so now I’m on record as a refusnik.
A pay rise for this fetishised NHS is totally wrong, They have protected jobs and good pensions. That’s enough. Perhaps a bonus for frontine NHS on COVID wards. But for the rest of the massive army nothing.
“…a bonus for frontline NHS on COVID wards…”
I agree. Take the 1% increase in the payroll budget and split it between the nurses and doctors and others who were on the frontline. Considering how top heavy NHS admin is that should be worth having as a one-off payment.
EDIT: Although I’m not sure the Tik Tok dancing nurses deserve a bonus.
The NHS is the nearest thing to a Secular State sponsored Religion. It is “The Envy of the World” but no other nation on Earth has anything like it. Perhaps there is a message there? It is one of the largest employers on Earth, after the US Military, the Chinese PLA, Walmart and McDonalds and already costs an incredible amount of money but we have no idea what it is spent on and like a Cuckoo in the nest always wants more.
Very true Michael.
+1. It was said that Prussia was an army that also had a state, the UK is going to end up a Health service that has a country.
I am more appreciative of our bin men (whatever their official titles are, and they are all men), the guys who cleared and gritted our roads, the ones who kept our shops supplied and running, delivered our on line stuff, the post persons, those who kept public transport running.
And all with no stupid dancing. Or whining about the stresses of using wrong treatment and sending sick people back to the care homes.
NHS Pay rise? No, UK is bankrupt
NHS: ~70% have been sitting at home or on part-time on full pay with NHS closed
Then we discover yesterday 64% of in-patients were infected with Covid in hospitals in Scotland. Do NHS staff “look them in the eye”?
All public sector sitting at home should have been furloughed
Private sector style performance related pay would mean a substantial pay cut. They’ve mostly done far less than they have in previous years if occupancy is anything to go by.