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The issue is that a lot of people in the private sector don't let their employer shaft them, they have no choice. If I squeak I'm gone.
then sort it out. stop whining and get unionised. get your union recognised by a bigger union and draw clout from that relationship. that's how it works. do something constructive. but to say 'why should other people have the opportunity to fight for their rights when i don't?' is just trying to drag others down to your powerless level. totally negative. better to try to get those same rights yourself rather than seek to deny those who have them their chance to use them.
re "more and more often the unions have used strike action to force through completely unreasonable demands." i don't see any unreasonable demands in this case. which unreasonable demands?
re "Junior doctors are not getting treated nicely but why is Joe public getting it???"
there is full emergency cover. they are not just doing this for themselves but to protect the quality of the service for its users. that's you, your children, your parents, etc. if you want to know what 'getting it' feels like, try having a heart attack in the states when the small print in your insurance scheme says you are not covered if you do.
It is farcical city hedge fund dealers offer society fuck all benefit yet earn millions.
Junior Docs are on c £10 an hour.
No-one could ever justify to me that gulf in pay. It's impossible
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I get what you're saying but the gulf between what junior doctors and hedge fund dealers earn are totally unrelated. I support their strike BTW I just think that the powers that be would LISTEN to people before it getting this far. Work out an equitable solution for everyone.
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Absolutely. But it's the gulf between edge fund dealers and 99.9% of the workers that is totally unjustifiable. Even what most "normal" bankers earn is mostly unjustifiable.
But the doctors should have been all over the media with detailed analysis of what they percieve to be their beef with the new contracts. I haven't seen/heard that yet, just intermittent whining which is easy to bat away.
Quids in.
Ah, hold on. You need all of the tiers below Consultants to support the work going on don't you? The Clinicians, Doctors, Junior Doctors, etc that are needed to allow the £350K Consultant to be able to function satisfactorily. Without them, they're just a qualified suit with "Mr" as a title and no back-up to do their job? So we need the Juniors to function effectively, both as a pool of talent for the future Consultant positions, and also as the intermediaries doing a massive part of the frontline duties that a Consultant can't.
What % of Junior Doctors go on to Consultant positions? Probably not many I'd guess from the ones I know as there's a) only so many positions available and b) not too many who qualify.
I'm of the opinion that judging the Medical profession by metrics from other occupations is not only unfair, but entirely misplaced. And yet the consensus is often that they should be held to the same % based standard. Diseases do not follow market forces, unfortunately.
If my pizza is late, I get a free one. If my bank shafts me, I get my cash back (if I'm lucky). If I die, tough shit.
They'd better hope the EU In vote is successful then...
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