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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on March 04, 2021, 07:11:09 PM

Title: Nurses' union anger over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 04, 2021, 07:11:09 PM: Clapping isn't money

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56285087
Title: Re: Nurses' union anger over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise
Post by: Udayana on March 05, 2021, 04:32:28 PM: How much does it cost annually for NHS staff to get 1% rise?
Title: Re: Nurses' union anger over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 05, 2021, 04:44:30 PM: Quote from: Udayana on March 05, 2021, 04:32:28 PM
How much does it cost annually for NHS staff to get 1% rise?

An article here about the cost of a 5 or 10% pay rise and various speculation about recouping that cost:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/18/government-pay-rise-cost-nhs-england-staff-report?
Title: Re: Nurses' union anger over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise
Post by: Udayana on March 05, 2021, 04:58:49 PM: V. interesting ...

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While the cost to the exchequer of a 10% pay increase would be £3.4bn this year on paper, the report, commissioned by NHS trade unions, found that these wider benefits would take the actual cost down to just £660m.

So, to my mind £3.4bn for a 10% pay rise does not seem too much, considering that the budget is allocating a further 15bn to the discredited test and trace setup:

(https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/test-and-trace-spending-ps37bn-budget-small-print_uk_60412920c5b601179ec35d4a/?pti=&__twitter_impression=true)

And if you take the £660m figure, factoring in other benefits --- why, that is within two weeks worth of the much touted BRExit saving, for the nhs, of £350m a week!
Title: Re: Nurses' union anger over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on March 05, 2021, 05:34:22 PM: You can always trust the tories to stab people in the back.
Title: Re: Nurses' union anger over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 09, 2021, 03:20:03 PM: Nurses 'wellpaid' says minister

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56260038
Title: Re: Nurses' union anger over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise
Post by: Roses on March 09, 2021, 04:39:32 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 09, 2021, 03:20:03 PM
Nurses 'wellpaid' says minister

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56260038

What a crazy idiot that man is! >:(
Title: Re: Nurses' union anger over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on March 09, 2021, 04:54:01 PM: Quote from: Littleroses on March 09, 2021, 04:39:32 PM
What a crazy idiot that man is! >:(
Look at ~~his~~ it's wikipedia entry. Not good reading imho.
Title: Re: Nurses' union anger over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise
Post by: Udayana on March 10, 2021, 03:38:36 PM: I see that BJ has been lying during PMQs and his new press secretary, in a Trump style briefing, just makes stuff up to try and obscure the lies!
Title: Re: Nurses' union anger over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on March 10, 2021, 06:04:02 PM: Quote from: Udayana on March 10, 2021, 03:38:36 PM
I see that BJ has been lying during PMQs and his new press secretary, in a Trump style briefing, just makes stuff up to try and obscure the lies!
You can usually tell if Johnson's lips moved.