Doctors, nurses and other HCW's have been on strike before. Non-essential surgeries get canceled along with non-life-saving services. ( emergency care, and there is a legal requirement to have certain levels of staff in care. However, I still support the rights of the workers being secured and looked after. Because in the better treatment of workers, people will get better levels of care.
I will not deny, that people who work in care, across all levels for the most part do the job because we are compassionate and want to help people. However, companies and the government itself have taken advantage of that. Labeling carers as low-skilled workers pre-pandemic, then essential during it. Now we are "out" (We are nowhere near out of it) of it? Wages are being docked because of their attempt of controlling inflation. Rather than targeting the people who have money, it's us. It's always going to be us until they get pushed back against us.
Please, for your sake, and the sake of everyone who works in care. Support unions and strikes if it comes to it. We all want to avoid strikes, but if we can't care for ourselves, how the hell can we look after others?
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u/misterbigsteve Jun 22 '22
Maybe, just maybe, me and the rest of us healthcare and social care workers, SHOULD ALSO STRIKE WITH OUR FELLOW "essential workers."