The Stores staff at the Northern General facing a pay cut of around £3,000 from their average £12,000 salaries have my full sympathies and support. In a seperate article some of these people have been working there for 20 years.

It is a disgrace that workers are being treated this way in Sheffield by our NHS health provider.

Star Article (http://www.thestar.co.uk/news?articleid=3086373)

So they should, leaving full time staff on £9000 or less a year is discusting!!!!

at one time bulk stores was classed as been part of sterile services in the n.g.h when this happened there staff wanted the same pay and bonus as ssd staff even thou there diffrent jobs.
they got what they wanted yet when it looked like sterile sevice were going to become part of a supercenter bulk stores jumped ship and decided to go it alone.
so really from a point of view there only going back to where they were before.
the trouble with the n.h.s is that theres too many wage bands and a lot of hard workers there on lower grades get dumped on.
i agree no one in the n.h.s or any job who works full time should get less than 10,000 a year but they do it seems the higher you are the less work and more perks you get.
of course i also think everybody as the right to fight for better working conditions and pay and if going on stirke is the only way then so be it regardless if you work for the n.h.s,coca cola or royal mail ect.

Why can't they simply leave and go get a job that pays the rate they want? Isn't that the whole point of a market economy?

Why can't they simply leave and go get a job that pays the rate they want? Isn't that the whole point of a market economy?

Thats the problem- if your a nurse there is the NHS and a few private hospitals, and i bet there isn't that many jobs in them,where else can a fully trained staff nurse go?? Its not like a job like IT where there are thousands of companies you can apply to, the NHS is like a monopoly on heathcare.

The goverment knows that they can turn the screw on them as most of them have no-where else to go!

Why can't they simply leave and go get a job that pays the rate they want? Isn't that the whole point of a market economy?

maybe they like who they work with and have worked with the same people for years? there could be a number of reasons.

maybe they like who they work with and have worked with the same people for years?


In which case there's no need to strike, is there?

It's a supply/demand position. If nobody is prepared to do the job for £9kpa, then the wages offered will go up. If people are, then they don't NEED to go up. I don't see how anybody going on strike is going to make any difference.