Roger supports health workers taking strike action
Posted by Roger Godsiff, MP for Birmingham, Hall Green, at 15:42, Fri 10 October 2014:
Roger is supporting health workers taking four hours of strike action on Monday over the Government’s refusal to pay them the living wage or permit the recommended 1% pay rise.
Commented Roger: “Hard-working health staff who do essential work for low wages have now been denied a pay rise for five years, meaning that their wages are falling in real terms as bills continue to increase. The Government is trying to claim that they are refusing staff a pay rise in order to save jobs, but this is untrue—last year 10,000 NHS jobs were cut as part of the latest attempt to “restructure” the NHS, or in other words make it easier for private companies to tear our health service apart in search of fatter profits.
“I support the health workers who are striking on Monday, and I urge the Government to listen to people who do essential work and who are struggling to survive on a low wage as the cost of living continues to rise.”
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Posted by M K Parmar, 16:44, Fri 10 October 2014: (Is this post abusive?) #
Question: How many of these 10000 redundant employees were subsequently re-employed in NHS?
Posted by Ian Soady, 08:50, Sat 11 October 2014: (Is this post abusive?) #
Well said again. It is appalling that a government which was elected partly on a promise of no major reorganisations to the NHS has totally reneged on that and wasted billions on an unnecessary and destructive reorganisation that has resulted in the loss of so many jobs and the erosion of NHS employees' rights and living standards.
The Labour Party must commit to removing the forced "competition" (perhaps better described as forced privatisation) elements of the reorganisation.