EU Commission now blocking vaccine exports to Australia.
EU Commission now blocking vaccine exports to Australia.
What do you want from them Jim? They can't go giving away their massive stockpiles that no cunt will take.
We've got you cobber. That, but with syringes.
Maybe Shipman was ahead of his time.
Nurses offered 1% pay rise. Their spokesperson is not a happy bunny.
I find that disgusting.
They're lucky to have jobs.
Can’t put a price on clapping.
They will be punished at the next election said nobody.
Hard as many nurses will have had it this year, I would suggest that the Smiffys of this world have had it harder.
Emotional arguments need to be left at the door for this sort of thing, because they are so reductive.
I do enjoy the "the job I personally chose to do has been difficult this year so I should earn more" arguments. That's not the way this shit works. Unless you want Abattoir and Sewage workers to be the 1%.
Four stillbirths in Ireland linked to COVID [placentitis]. Clubs should remain unaffected.
lol at chump National Health Service workers missing out on them sweet privatised utility salary gains.
My workload has increased. I'd like a payrise, but I'd actually expect additional staff to be hired instead. Unless there's reason to believe my workload is soon decrease again...
Look, I get that the NHS doesn't pay particularly well, but that's no secret ahead of time. It just feels a bit snide taking a job because it's what you want to do, but then expecting to profit because the National Health Service had to provide... a health service.
Member all those DRAFTED IN vaccinators who are being paid like £230 an hour? Aye.
I had to answer phones for 3 months while people were on furlough. The nurses had it easy.
The jobs thread is gonna be a lot quieter now everybody's decided you should never complain about stuff that just comes with the job or expect a payrise other than to cover cost of living.
They're lucky to still have jobs considering they're the National HOMOCIDE Service.
There is an argument to be made that Nurses should earn more money. Same goes for Care Workers and Teachers. They perform important roles in society and in a fair world would out earn most of us.
The issue is using Covid as an excuse to demand a payrise when the reality is, as shit as it must have been, they are doing their job. It's not as if they've been conscripted. They literally trained to do it whilst being fully aware of the wage.
Magic had it right (stopped clock), with Jimmy in the Spring he was doing his whole teams work whilst the rest were off on Furlough and his boss was coining it off of his hard work. That deserves a raise. Redistribute the profit. The NHS are losing money hand over fist. There's no profiting for the NHS in a pandemic.
Last edited by Spikey M; 05-03-2021 at 10:07 AM.
There's no point having this discussion here. You just have absolutely zero comprehension what it's like working in healthcare and what it's been like for people like ITU nurses who've borne the brunt of the pandemic.
It makes you feel good to sit around being smug about whining public sector workers so good for you, have at it.
Solid victory, wp lads.
5 people have the Russian variant got me thinking has Tony Abbott threatened to shirt front Putin while working for Boris?
I have literally never heard of a Russian VARIANT. What does this one bring to the party?
Juicy first headline of the day.
This is a spectacularly dumb argument. The NHS isn't a money-making organisation, that's not how its success is measured. There's no profiting for the NHS ever under any circumstances.Originally Posted by Spikey
You can privatise it, pay a lot more for it and then pay me a fuck load more to not treat you because your insurance doesn't cover what you need if that would make you feel better.
If you work for a private company and make your Korean overlords a few extra quid by covering for colleagues you deserve a raise, but if you save a few hundred lives by doing the work of six nurses on ITU you don't because your organisation didn't make any money off it.
Perhaps we should start docking nurses wages for looking after anyone who isn't at work given their survival will be a net monetary loss to society.
Last edited by randomlegend; 05-03-2021 at 10:23 AM.
This is a spectacularly dumb response.
The point is "hard work" is not the barometer of pay rises. In the private sector, the barometer is 'performance' I.e, how much profit you generate. In the public sector the barometer is 'do we have any money left over'. To which the answer is no, and always will be.
As I said, Nurses SOULD earn more, but not "because it's been a really hard year". That, as you're fond of saying, is the mindset of a toddler.
The barometer in the public sector should equally be performance, and some people in the NHS have performed unbelievably this year. If everyone has to pay some extra tax to fund that then that's fine by me, given they've all benefited.