Tens of thousands of junior doctors and consultants took strike action in Britain this week. Both groups are represented by the British Medical Association (BMA), who walked alongside junior doctors in the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association. The consultants, senior doctors, walked out on Tuesday and Wednesday and the junior …
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Junior doctors in the British Medical Association (BMA) and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) are taking four consecutive days of strikes this week. World Socialist Web Site reporters visited picket lines on the first day of the action. Victoria was picketing Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital. She has been a …
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THE four-day strike by junior doctors this week marks the longest national strike in NHS history. Though members of other health unions are voting on an improved — though still below-inflation — pay award following successful strike action, the doctors’ walkout shows we are a long way from industrial peace …
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Britain’s trade union bureaucracy has called off every strike planned this week by National Health Service (NHS) workers. This is part of a concerted effort to end months of strikes throughout the public and private sectors with below inflation pay settlements. An eight-month strike wave that began last summer has …
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HEALTH workers will today hold a series of lunchtime protests aimed at highlighting deteriorating terms and conditions for staff. The Unison-organised protests at sites in Belfast and the Southern trust area will see the union’s members joined by colleagues from Nipsa, Unite, the British Medical Association and the Royal College …
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