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Originally Posted by richard1960
Ok that's fair enough.
But what I can say is this a staff Nurse who is skilled earns about £34000 a year a train driver who is also skilled gets £52000 a year.
When it comes to skilled NHS staff there is a market we have had staff go to Saudi Arabia ,and Australia both countries have regular jobs fairs here.
Hunts 1% pay rises mean more are choosing to work privately or go elsewhere.
Those that do not work in the NHS and only repeat what they hear not you don't help ,the reality is for a lot of us these days its a real graft to fill in the missing gaps.  |
I don't disagree at all about the relative values or the desire to earn more pay - we'd all do that. That doesn't however alter the fact that it places the NHS under even greater strain and it's the taxpayer who foots the bill.
There are plenty of public sector and private sector workers who deserve more than they get but who's going to pay for it and what impact will that have on costs in the case of the NHS and prices in the case of for example, retail staff?
Just for information my eldest son has just been offered his first job in teaching from September. He could have done something else and quite probably earned more but he hasn't chosen to do so, he's also in debt to the tune of over £25k as a result of his choice to pursue that chosen career. If we're going to pay everyone what we think they deserve and pay for their training, we'd better accept we're going to have to pay a lot more in tax and prices because an awful lot of people deserve more than they get. Who's going to vote for that?