Britain faces a wave of industrial action this winter
If it spreads to the NHS, things could get very bad
When rachel (not her real name), a nurse in Leeds, told her father she had voted to strike, he told her she mustn’t: it would be unethical. She responded, she says, “with two words”. A nurse for 27 years, she earns “not well” but better than some. Yet her job, which she used to love, has become intolerable. Every week she works for at least 15 hours more than she is paid for, working through the “massive” waiting list that built up in the National Health Service (NHS) due to the pandemic.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “A winter of walkouts”
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