Junior doctors to strike months after Labour gave them 22% pay rise | Politics | News
Junior doctors have humiliated workforce after voting to strike just 10 months after a 22% wage increase is given. The British Medical Association of the Unions announced that 90% of young doctors this morning voted in favor of the strike action with 55% of participation.
The union has not yet confirmed when the strikes would start, and insisted that the government could still prevent NHS chaos by entering the latest demands. Junior doctors call for another major wage increase of around 29%, which will reach the 2008 levels when adjusted to inflation. Health Secretary Wes Streeting them 5.5% this year, in the highest public sector.
BMA condemned this generosity as “Derisor” and “grieving inadequate”.
As a result of today’s strike ballot, Labour’s promises to cut waiting lists and NHS, a central board of the manifesto, can make a hole in accumulation.
Dr. Melissa Ryan and Dr. Ross Nieuwoudt, the co -presidents of the BMA’s settlement doctors committee said: “Doctors clearly talked and spoke: they will not accept that they are fifth less worth in 2008. Our wages may have fallen, but our will to fight remain strong.”
“Now we find ourselves at an important intersection. In the opposition last year, Mr. Streeting said that the solution to the strikes was to talk to the established doctors. It was as true as it is now. He touched on a point to grasp the problem and a solution to negotiate quickly. He said he wanted to take back the table with us just a few weeks ago.
“Now we will see that you can make the right decision once again. It needs to come to the forefront as soon as possible in a reliable way to pay restoration. All we need is a reliable fee offer and no one needs a strike.”
“Doctors do not underestimate the industrial action, but they know that it is preferred to watch the profession. Will the next movement will repeat the mistakes of the government? Or will a way to negotiate a way to restore the restoration of our profession and doctors’ confidence in the future of our profession?”
Junior doctors received a 44 -day strike in 2023 and 2024 and resulted in an appointment and operation of 1.5 million canceled appointments.
Danny Mortimer, General Manager of NHS employers, said: “NHS leaders once again do not want to see more industrial action that can be canceled for thousands of appointments and operations, because the most painful patients.”
“The decision to strike again after the latest payment awards of resident doctors will be a wrong -wing step in the wrong direction, especially considering the BMA approach to strikes.
“Health leaders understand that established doctors have real concerns about both the conditions they work and the education they receive.
“However, we will invite the BMA members to participate in the travel direction to work with a wider NHS in order to provide improvements in working conditions, which the government has recently summarized in the ten -year health plan and previously agreed.”
