Would you support Junior Doctors if they go on strike?
Junior doctors have rejected the Health Secretary’s last-minute pay offer and will go ahead with their ballot for strike action.
The BMA has started balloting around 40,000 junior doctors in England today about possible industrial action.
The BMA argue the new government contract for trainee doctors would mean major pay cuts, and threaten safety by making doctors work longer hours. The average working week will still be 48 hours, and the maximum will be reduced from 91 to 72,with strict enforcement by watchdogs.
If the new rules are forced on them, our junior doctors are more likely to move abroad and the NHS will be in crisis.
Although the timing and length of the strike has not been decided, it would cause huge disruption for the NHS over winter, leading to thousands of cancelled operations and appointments.
Votes on strike action will be cast from today and will be counted on 18th November.
What are your views? Do you think Junior Doctors are right to go on strike? Do you have sympathy with them?
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So ... are Junior doctors merely facing paycuts because their maximum hours are being reduced to 72 from 91? And how can it be threatening safety by making them work longer hours if their maximum hours are being cut? Doesn't add up ...
Consultants are rich with their high salaries and private patients, they average £250,000 per annum.
I would happily work as a Junior Doctor on £80,000 per annum with the prospect of becoming a Consultant.
Most of them will not strike, because it will blight their chances of promotion, you notice that most of their Union reps are mouthy young females.
On my most recent jobs, I had to sign something brought in by the EU about working more than 48 hours a week. Does this not apply to junior doctors then?
Why shouldn't they have 'weekends', everyone else does and with those comes extra pay for working them.
Working long hours, they become tired like everyone else,they need rest we don't know what they have to do when they go home, how the government can let this happen, we all can't afford private medical care, like they do, it's the National Health Service for everyone paid for by all of us through our working lives, we must look after the workers who keep it a wonderful service,
The government are just making cuts everywhere to hurt ordinary people, why do chairmen and business executives get paid so much, their pay and leaving/retirement pay is a joke.
Wonder how many of them work 90hours or even 72 hours a week ,might take them couple of months .
The junior doctors do brilliant work.