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UK Nurses to Go on Strike for First Time in History

  • #Labor
  • #Healthcare
  • #Medicine & healthcare
  • #Strikes
  • #United Kingdom
  • #Ireland
story
NOV 2022
Image copyright: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images [via The Guardian]
story last updated NOV 2022

The Spin

Left narrative

Finally, nurses in the UK are standing up for themselves as the country's Tory leadership continues to assault working people. Nurses — an absolutely essential part of any society — have been underpaid for years and are rightly fighting back. The onus is now on the government to meet them at the negotiating table.

Guardian

Right narrative

No one is saying that nurses don't deserve to be paid more for their life-saving work, but the current economic situation in the UK is just too bleak to afford such an increase. A strike will only serve to cripple the already faltering NHS, which will see patients suffer, and inequalities in care worsen.

Daily Mail

Political split

LEFT

RIGHT

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