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Originally Posted by joeysteele

I've not changed my position.
I stand wholeheartedly with the Junior Doctors.

They've been treated abominably by the Con governments, firstly with Jeremy Hunt just under 10 years ago when he was Health secretary.
Plus with every Health secretary from Johnson becoming PM too.

I wish them success in their justified battle here.

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.