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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

I fully support campaigning for better pay for professional level NHS staff in principle, however that's not really the issue at all here. It's that they're planning strike action against ... An empty room. It completely misses the point of what strike action is and how it works.

The point of a strike is... You threaten to strike, you negotiate, the offer is either good enough to stop it or it isn't and then you strike, during which time negotiations continue to end the strike action.

Part of the whole mechanism of strike action and the whole point is to actually NOT strike because a deal has been struck.

In this case... Parliament will have been dissolved a month before the strike, and no new govt will be on place yet.

The room is EMPTY, there's no one to negotiate with. There's no possibility of averting or ending the strike early with a pay settlement. There's no one home.

It makes absolutely no sense.

I can agree partly with a lot there.
However this isn't a new dispute, this has gone on for over 18 months at least.

There have been it appears no meaningful and sincere negotiations from this government.

I can't and won't condemn the Junior Doctors.
In the last dispute when Hunt was Health secretary.
3 of my Cousins who were Doctors in the NHS, left and 2 went to Australia the other to New Zealand.

This government still after all the Health secretaries there has been since Johnson's leadership.
Have payed nothing more than lip service to the NHS and Junior Doctors.

So I stand with them totally.
Anytime they go on strike, it is never the right time for those opposed to strike action.
However this government has had way more than ample or full time to find a solution to this dispute.

I'm not going to condemn the Junior Doctors now for admittedly a not the best time to strike.
It makes little difference,. whenever there's been the strikes over the last 18 months+ this government has never.tried to either avert said strikes or talk during them.