I’m so fucking :doomer: and while I know it’s a coping mechanism I fail to argue against it.

Let’s just share wholesome happy things in this thread.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    The nurses strike is underway in the UK with 100,000 striking workers and 65% of the population supporting the strike despite the media making every effort they can to turn the public against them.

    • Tanith [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      So I’m dumb, yeah? How does a medical strike not kill patients? (Not that I mind them being English and all/sarcasm) do the ones who actually treat gonna die people sit out or something ? Strikes are good though. I just don’t understand how this one works.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        It probably isn't good for patients. But it has reached a breaking point where NOT striking is worse for patients. Nurses are currently grossly understaffed and pick up hours without overtime pay because they don't want to harm the patients. Many are working 80-100 hour weeks for their 37.5hour per week contracts. They do it because it's work that needs to be done. But they're so overworked, so miserable, and barely living with enough money (especially in london) to survive. These conditions cause bad nursing, which kills patients. The outcome of these strikes will be a net improvement for patients.

        UK nurses have never striked before for exactly that reason. That's how monumental this is.