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Re: Junior Doctors Prepare For First Full Walk-Out
Well it seems that, according to leaked BMA emails, pay was the main reason for their stance on the strikes and it was an opportunity to stick it to HMG:
http://order-order.com/2016/05/26/se...real-red-line/
Quote:
A massive leak of private WhatsApp messages reveals pay was “the only real red line” for the BMA junior doctors leadership. Despite the BMA publicly claiming the strike was about patient safety, senior BMA junior doctor committee member Kitty Mohan admitted:
“It [pay] is the only real red line. It’s the thing 99 per cent of juniors told us they were upset about in August...”
... Committee chair Dr Johann Malawana said drawing out the dispute was the “best solution… to impose [the contract] against our support”. Dr Malawana said he “had nothing to talk about” with the Department for Health, despite the BMA publicly calling the government to the table. He also said:
“I don’t care about anything apart from extracting the best contract. Don’t give a **** about anything else.”
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...blame-the-bma/
http://www.hsj.co.uk/topics/workforc...ontentID=15303
Last edited by Osem; 28-05-2016 at 12:46.
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