Strikes? What's the point when the Government isn't even going to sit down and talk? Seriously. What is the point of strikes when you're going to treat your colleagues like this?
So this morning got sent a video in my emails from someone I know who is NHS staff on the front line in A&E (ER to Americans). I took a screen shot with my phone as it basically just shows this. What you see here are 2 trolleys. The bags are meant to go in those trolleys. And the bags contain soiled bed sheets and ward clothing (the stuff they put on you if your own clothes are damaged or covered in blood).
She said another staff member, a nurse, walks in as she's using the disposal area, throws a bag (splitting it) on the floor and begins walking out. "Put it in the trolley!" says my friend.
"NOT MY JOB!!" nurse storms off.
Later she said she's in there, and took that video due to the floor being covered. The man comes in to collect, looks down at it with sheer disappointment, and starts having to lift the bags into the empty trolley you see behind. He tells her "this is every room now, and I service 20 rooms."
10 bags on the floor there. 20 rooms. His back is in pain. He's got a job interview. He's definitely leaving now. Would have taken the nurse half a second to put the bag in the right place. I guarantee this nurse and others like them will have been out on strike about conditions. These are people I call middle-class-strikers. Out of touch with those in the working classes, ultimately causing problems for them when they act like this. Yeah its not great being a nurse now - but don't do this to others. You'll lose their support when you do.
