Once upon a time, one railway union boss wanted to help the nurses!

Once upon a time, one railway union boss wanted to help the nurses!

Recognising that they had real muscle, this man in a TV interview that I saw last decade, actually expressed his intention to get the nurses higher pay rises!  Does anyone else remember hearing this very fine intention to strike for the nurses?  What selfless disregard for their own pay and rules of working and putting others, much more disadvantaged than themselves, first!  So admirable, they must get 19% themselves as well as the nurses.

WHO WAS THAT FINE MAN?

Insulting 1% for heroes

They can find the money to increase military spending above inflation; for an undemocratic, very costly regional government; and a totally unnecessary, look how rich we are, "bus on rails" tram to replace perfectly good buses, YET NURSES GET A DERISORY 1% pay rise. Disgraceful! Timweller1@gmail.com

"Ministers have decided to “balance the books on the backs of the starving people of Yemen” in an act that will see tens of thousands die and damage the UK’s global influence, the head of the UN’s Office for Humanitarian Affairs has said.

"Speaking with rare bluntness after the UK more than halved its funds to help Yemen, the former permanent secretary at the Department for International Development Mark Lowcock said he was shocked by the decision. It is understood he was given no chance to appeal to the UK to rethink."   Guardian 8 March 2021