{"id":5723,"date":"2020-03-21T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T10:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2020-03-21T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T10:20:53","slug":"theyre-heros-now-so-why-have-you-been-cutting-their-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=5723","title":{"rendered":"They’re Heros Now, So Why Have You Been Cutting Their Pay?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now that we’re in the middle of a pandemic (or close to the beginning of it), everyone is proclaiming health care workers to be heroes. Not that I disagree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if they’re heroes, why have you been cutting their pay for the last ten years? For seven years there was a 1% cap on cost of living pay increases, which came to an end with a 6.5% increase over three years – which is nowhere near enough to make up for the shortfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today a nurse is earning less in real terms (i.e. stuff he can buy) than a nurse earned in 2008. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this how you treat heros?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we are not individually responsible for taking a few more of life’s little luxuries away each year, but collectively we are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So make a resolution: Never under any<\/em> circumstances vote for a Tory ever again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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