Ambulance Strike, now on Feb 20, & in March 6th & 20th

[arista]

If this happens
more deaths


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[Mystic Mock]

This is an awful time for the UK.

It sounds similar to the 70's.

[arista]

Last one was 1989

[joeysteele]

All the strike action being considered and taken is both undesirable and extremely sad to see.

However up to now I support the workers seeking better hope in their livelihoods after this period of X years.
It's sadly inevitable this was going to be the case when you have this particular government of a hard-line make up.
Plus Companies not being fully fair and honest with workers too.

When people get to that breaking point of feeling totally undervalued and not really listened to.
Then the breakdown in relations will result in discontent and the need for stronger action.
So good luck to them in their fight from me.

[Crimson Dynamo]

more worker who lost no income or work during the pandemic now striking

beggars belief

[arista]

21st Dec - 28th Dec


Ambulance Strike Confirmed

SkyNewsHD Live.

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[bots]

this is all going to get very grim before it's all over

[user104658]

more worker who lost no income or work during the pandemic now striking

beggars belief

Yeah those lucky buggers out there getting underpaid to have people's lives in their hands when the rest of us could have been out skimming a profit off dead pensioner's pots and crockery but weren't allowed! Don't know they're born, they should get back in those ambulances and work purely for the roof over their head and a Tesco meal deal on a Thursday. And be grateful for it!

[Crimson Dynamo]

Yeah those lucky buggers out there getting underpaid to have people's lives in their hands when the rest of us could have been out skimming a profit off dead pensioner's pots and crockery but weren't allowed! Don't know they're born, they should get back in those ambulances and work purely for the roof over their head and a Tesco meal deal on a Thursday. And be grateful for it!

Hi TS

:wavey:

[Crimson Dynamo]

LT that is Not TS

well its some member who has been on the site for years

James needs to investigate

[joeysteele]

Yeah those lucky buggers out there getting underpaid to have people's lives in their hands when the rest of us could have been out skimming a profit off dead pensioner's pots and crockery but weren't allowed! Don't know they're born, they should get back in those ambulances and work purely for the roof over their head and a Tesco meal deal on a Thursday. And be grateful for it!

I agree totally.

It really should be a scandal how the other workers across the NHS.
As well as Doctors, Nurses and the ambulance service.
Have remained so undervalued and failed by the government.
Not just this one.
The last Labour government could and should have done much more too.

The clapping on doorsteps have became as meaningless as the only lip service given with the arrogant treatment of those in the NHS now.

[Kate!]

LT that is Not TS

I too think it is TS.

[arista]

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[bots]

we should be thinking about the ambulance chasers too, what will they do now?

[arista]

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[arista]

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[user104658]

I too think it is TS.

I don't think it is.

[bots]

i think we have all be transported to an alternative universe

[Gusto Brunt]

When I heard on the news this morning if you're an old man or woman in your 80s or 90s, and you fall over and cannot get up, the ambulance WON'T COME OUT.:shocked::shocked:

Basically you can lie on the floor and die if not that day but a few days later. :(

That is sick and an absolute disgrace.:fist::fist:

[user104658]

It's almost like we actually need ambulances and medical staff and should pay them well enough for them to come to work :think:. Baffling really, and here I was, thinking they ate well wishes and slept on beds made out of pats on the back. This as truly all been a revelation! If we don't have nurses and paramedics people are going to die. A real shock to come to terms with!

Thankfully LT will still be available upsell your dead grandad's old ashes pot if you give it a good wash, then you can pay for a taxi to the hospital. No one be there to look after you but at least you'll be closer to the morgue.

[Kazanne]

I too think it is TS.

And me :laugh::laugh:

[arista]

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[joeysteele]

There's been in the last 12 years from the SAME party 5 different Prime Ministers.
An unstable scenario of changes of Health secretary.

One would have thought it possible to get a health Secretary who actually did really care.

Yet here with this again new PM all he does is shuffle around another incompetent and uncaring individual who has been a failure in the last few years too.
Into this important position which urgently needs at least some understanding and compassion to deal with the ever building crisis.
Not hard-line extreme soundbites.

The rhetoric from Barclay and the government is a disgrace to any decency.
Towards the Nurses, Doctors and ambulance service as well as to all others who work in the NHS.

[arista]

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[bots]

Smart move by the nurses, put the responsibility for the strike on government

[joeysteele]

Smart move by the nurses, put the responsibility for the strike on government

Very smart move indeed, yes.

[arista]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

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[arista]

Army are ready for tomorrow's Strike.

[arista]

From Ch4HDnews
tomorrow, possible extra deaths expected.

[rusticgal]

If anyone needs an Ambulance tomorrow I pity them….

My Dad has had a suspected Stroke after a fall in the early hours of Monday morning. After being checked out by a Doctor he gradually deteriorated and an Ambulance was called at midnight last night….at MIDDAY today it finally arrived. Now in hospital still in a side cubicle as we speak my 92 year old Dad is in a bad way.
The pressure the Ambulance service is under is clear…but devastating to those that need a quicker response. It’s not looking good for my poor dad.

[arista]

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[arista]

Health Secretary
Steve Barclay went Live, first on GBnewsHD
standing in Dark Westminster.

The Ambulance strike today is in
England and Wales.

[arista]

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[joeysteele]

If anyone needs an Ambulance tomorrow I pity them….

My Dad has had a suspected Stroke after a fall in the early hours of Monday morning. After being checked out by a Doctor he gradually deteriorated and an Ambulance was called at midnight last night….at MIDDAY today it finally arrived. Now in hospital still in a side cubicle as we speak my 92 year old Dad is in a bad way.
The pressure the Ambulance service is under is clear…but devastating to those that need a quicker response. It’s not looking good for my poor dad.

I'm so sorry to hear this rusticgal.

[arista]

Health Secretary
now on bbc1AM
in a warm London Westminster studio, now.

He says the Trade Unions
are responsible for any deaths today.

[joeysteele]

Health Secretary
now on bbc1AM
in a warm London Westminster studio, now.

He says the Trade Unions
are responsible for any deaths today.

Well that kind of inflammatory language isn't going to help in any way at all.
Here is another Health secretary who is a totally wrong appointment then.

Really after the last something like 8 years of the government's failure on the NHS, I think Barclay needs to look closer to home for real blame.
At those in the job before him.

He should be looking for ways to compromise and bring together not set out to divide further like he is in this atrocious statement

[MTVN]

If anyone needs an Ambulance tomorrow I pity them….

My Dad has had a suspected Stroke after a fall in the early hours of Monday morning. After being checked out by a Doctor he gradually deteriorated and an Ambulance was called at midnight last night….at MIDDAY today it finally arrived. Now in hospital still in a side cubicle as we speak my 92 year old Dad is in a bad way.
The pressure the Ambulance service is under is clear…but devastating to those that need a quicker response. It’s not looking good for my poor dad.

Ah no I'm sorry to hear that rusti, hope he can pull through 🙏

[MTVN]

I really think there are some industries that shouldn't strike, it's terrifying how many people today will have their lives lost or ruined because of this action. I saw this morning that you will basically only get an ambulance if you're having a heart attack and about to die, you won't get one if you're having a stroke despite the first few hours being so important

[arista]

I really think there are some industries that shouldn't strike, it's terrifying how many people today will have their lives lost or ruined because of this action. I saw this morning that you will basically only get an ambulance if you're having a heart attack and about to die, you won't get one if you're having a stroke despite the first few hours being so important



The Last Strike 1989
Thatcher gave into their demands


Reported today.

[Cherie]

If anyone needs an Ambulance tomorrow I pity them….

My Dad has had a suspected Stroke after a fall in the early hours of Monday morning. After being checked out by a Doctor he gradually deteriorated and an Ambulance was called at midnight last night….at MIDDAY today it finally arrived. Now in hospital still in a side cubicle as we speak my 92 year old Dad is in a bad way.
The pressure the Ambulance service is under is clear…but devastating to those that need a quicker response. It’s not looking good for my poor dad.

Oh Rusti I am so sorry to hear that, thoughts are with you xxxxx

[arista]

Well that kind of inflammatory language isn't going to help in any way at all.
Here is another Health secretary who is a totally wrong appointment then.

Really after the last something like 8 years of the government's failure on the NHS, I think Barclay needs to look closer to home for real blame.
At those in the job before him.

He should be looking for ways to compromise and bring together not set out to divide further like he is in this atrocious statement

Yes Joey,
the NHS should ask for 12%
that would sound more Fair

[Crimson Dynamo]

If anyone needs an Ambulance tomorrow I pity them….

My Dad has had a suspected Stroke after a fall in the early hours of Monday morning. After being checked out by a Doctor he gradually deteriorated and an Ambulance was called at midnight last night….at MIDDAY today it finally arrived. Now in hospital still in a side cubicle as we speak my 92 year old Dad is in a bad way.
The pressure the Ambulance service is under is clear…but devastating to those that need a quicker response. It’s not looking good for my poor dad.

fingers crossed Rusti x

[joeysteele]

Yes Joey,
the NHS should ask for 12%
that would sound more Fair

Well it's usual to have a high figure originally to then come down on in compromise to a lower one.

The government do NEED to look at something like that and NOT follow the continuing procrastination road they've followed for years now under successive Prime Ministers.

[bots]

The government can't keep putting their fingers in their ears and sing la la la. Maybe they can't afford the pay demands, but that shouldn't stop them talking. People will die today as a result of this strike

[arista]

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[arista]

Ambulance Union has now added 2 more strikes next month

Wednesday 11th January
and Monday 23rd January


https://news.sky.com/story/ambulance-workers-to-stage-two-more-strikes-in-january-12773260

[arista]

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[joeysteele]

It's really sad but I support them 100%.

[rusticgal]

fingers crossed Rusti x


Thanks LT….:love:

[arista]

The GMB have cancelled the 28th of December strike.

[arista]

Tomorrow, Ambulance are on Strike again

Then on the 23rd as well

[arista]

Terrible Dangerous Strike
today.

[GoldHeart]

It is a dangerous strike, and we know more people will die.

I really hope things improve massively after this , otherwise it was all for nothing .

[arista]

6 in all Strike Dates

[Ambulance staff at eight NHS trusts are
set to walk out on 6 and 20 February, and 6 and 20 March.

Workers at West Midlands ambulance service will also
strike on 23 January and North West
Ambulance Service will walk out on 24 January.]

https://news.sky.com/story/ambulance-strikes-gmb-union-announce-six-further-dates-for-action-12789276

[arista]

6 in all Strike Dates

[Ambulance staff at eight NHS trusts are
set to walk out on 6 and 20 February, and 6 and 20 March.

Workers at West Midlands ambulance service will also
strike on 23 January and North West
Ambulance Service will walk out on 24 January.]

https://news.sky.com/story/ambulance-strikes-gmb-union-announce-six-further-dates-for-action-12789276



Today, Monday 20th of Feb
National Ambulance Strike
again.

GMB Union
Getting no talks

[user104658]

Scottish nurses offer on the table works out as around a 14%-15% increase from April 2021-April 2023 (17%+ at the lower end of the pay bands) and I think it's looking likely that the offer will be accepted on vote. Other amendments to pay scale structure are being looked at and amended going forward as well.

I think that's the best that can be hoped for, but I think it also serves as a pretty clear mandate for English staff to hold out for 15% :shrug:.

If the govt. continue to refuse and Scottish nurses end up on a full 15% higher salary than south of the border, there'll be an exodus of Northern English nurses moving to the South of Scotland :joker:.

[arista]

[I think that's the best that can be hoped for,
but I think it also serves as a pretty clear
mandate for English staff to hold out for 15%]


12% is what many are saying is the max
for UK.

[user104658]

It is a dangerous strike, and we know more people will die.


Far fewer people will die from these strikes than will die over the next 5-10 years if the situation isn't addressed, properly, and quickly. Teetering on the edge of a healthcare catastrophe.

One foot's already over to be honest.

[arista]

Strikes on Hold


New Talks are now going on
In Wales and England.

Ch4HDnews Live


Two unions suspend ambulance strikes in England as talks reopen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64839818

[Crimson Dynamo]

sad that hard left unions have exploited this sector

[arista]

Unite Union
has Also called off this week's Strikes
in good Faith of talks.

But they warned they want new money added for now
not in 6 months time etc.


SkyNewsHD Live

[arista]

[Planned walkouts by Unite union ambulance
workers this week have been cancelled
with a day to spare.
Members at trusts in the West Midlands,
North West, South Central, South Coastal,
and East Midlands were to go on
strike on Monday - with more planned
for Wednesday.

But following "further assurances from the government
over the weekend", the union says they
will no longer happen.

["Unite has in good faith agreed to pause
the strike action," said Gail Cartmail,
the union's head of operations.

"If the meeting doesn't meet these
assurances, strike action will resume."]


https://news.sky.com/story/unite-union-ambulance-strikes-planned-for-this-week-called-off-12826735

[MTVN]

If Rishi can end the strikes, get this new Brexit deal through, and make good on stopping the boats then he'll start to become very popular and could still win the next election

[Crimson Dynamo]

Starmer must be raging