• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Setting an end date to a strike kind of defeats the entire purpose.
    The employer won’t have to wonder how long its going to go on and can just wait out the strike.

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      5 months ago

      And then they can do it again if they don’t get a solution they are satisfied with. This is a significant action by these doctors, the longest strike the NHS has ever had, and it comes on top of more than a year of on/off industrial action.

  • bartolomeo@suppo.fi
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    5 months ago

    Isn’t the underlying situation just boilerplate conservative greed?

    • defund or otherwise mismanage public service
    • use the media to drum up a public outcry
    • step in and offer a MoRE eFfIciENt, private option
    • profit (then lower quality while raising prices until all the juice is squeezed)

    I hope the government comes to their senses.

    (Americans looking on like “what in tarnation does the gubmint have to do with the doctors?!”)