UK nurses, 救急車 乗組員s strike, 緊張するing health system
LONDON (AP) - Tens of thousands of nurses and 救急車 staff walked off the 職業 in the U.K. on Monday in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country's public health system.
The ストライキ is the 最新の in a wave of strikes that has 混乱に陥れる／中断させるd Britons´ lives for months, as 労働者s - 特に in the public 部門 - 需要・要求する 支払う／賃金 raises to keep pace with 二塁打-digit インフレーション. Teachers, train drivers, airport baggage handlers, 国境 staff, 運動ing 指導者s, bus drivers and 郵便の 労働者s also have all walked off their 職業s in 最近の months to 需要・要求する higher 支払う／賃金.
Teachers, health 労働者s and many others say their 給料 have fallen in real 条件 over the last １０年間, and a cost-of-living 危機 燃料d by はっきりと rising food and energy prices has left many struggling to 支払う／賃金 their 法案s.
Victoria Busk, a 訓練生 nursing associate at a 外傷／ショック 中心 in Birmingham, central England, said hospitals were understaffed and nurses "run off our feet 24/7."
"We need people to want to come into" the profession, she said. "The only way that we´re going to get that is by raising 給料 and make sure it is something that people want to do."
Britain's 年次の インフレーション 率 was 10.5% in December, a 41-year high. The 保守的な 政府 argues that giving public 部門 staff 支払う／賃金 増加するs of 10% or more would 運動 インフレーション even higher.
A protestor with a megaphone shouts スローガンs in 前線 of Big Ben as nurses of the nearby St. Thomas' Hospital 抗議する in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Tens of thousands of nurses and 救急車 staff are walking off the 職業 in the U.K. in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country's public health system. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
The strike piles more 圧力 on the 明言する／公表する-基金d 国家の Health Service, already staggering under 需要・要求する from winter ウイルスs, staff 不足s and backlogs built up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nursing unions say 緊急 care and 癌 治療 will continue during their 48-hour ストライキ, but thousands of 任命s and 手続きs are likely to be 延期するd.
The 救急車 service says it will 答える／応じる to the most 緊急の calls during a daylong strike. But 商売／仕事 長官 認める Shapps said the strike could put lives at 危険, leaving people with "a postcode 宝くじ when it comes to having a heart attack or a 一打／打撃."
Sharon Graham, general 長官 of the 部隊 union 代表するing some 救急車 staff, said Sunday there were "no 会談 at any level どれでも with the 政府" about 支払う／賃金. She 勧めるd 総理大臣 Rishi Sunak to "come to the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する and 交渉する - roll your sleeves up and 交渉する on the 支払う／賃金 in the NHS - that is what´s 要求するd."
Pat Cullen, 長，率いる of the 王室の College of Nursing union, also said a "meaningful" 支払う／賃金 申し込む／申し出 from the 政府 could bring the strike "to a swift の近くに."
Sunak's 広報担当者, Max Blain, said Monday that there was no 計画（する） for the 首相 to get 直接／まっすぐに 伴う／関わるd in 会談, but "we want to keep discussing how we can find a path 今後 with the unions."
Unions are 捜し出すing a 支払う／賃金 raise for the 現在の year, but the 政府 says it will only talk about the year ahead.
Monday´s nursing strike 影響する／感情s England. In Scotland and むちの跡s - which have semiautonomous 政府s in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of health 政策 - unions have 一時停止するd ストライキs while 交渉s continue.
Sunak´s 政府 also has 怒り／怒るd unions by introducing a 法案 that will make it harder for 重要な 労働者s to strike by setting "最小限 safety levels" for firefighters, 救急車 services and 鉄道s that must be 持続するd during a ストライキ.
Nurses of the nearby St. Thomas' Hospital stand on the picket line, in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Tens of thousands of nurses and 救急車 staff walked off the 職業 in the U.K. Monday in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of Britain's public health system. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Nurses of the nearby St. Thomas' Hospital stand on the picket line, in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Tens of thousands of nurses and 救急車 staff walked off the 職業 in the U.K. Monday in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of Britain's public health system. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Nurses of the nearby St. Thomas' Hospital 抗議する, in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Tens of thousa nds of nurses and 救急車 staff walked off the 職業 in the U.K. Monday in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of Britain's public health system. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Nurses of the University College Hospital 抗議する in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Tens of thousands of nurses and 救急車 staff are walking off the 職業 in the U.K. in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country's public health system. Monday's ストライキ is the 最新の in a wave of str ikes that has 混乱に陥れる／中断させるd Britons' lives for months as 労働者s 需要・要求する 支払う／賃金 raises to keep pace with 二塁打-digit インフレーション. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Nurses of the University College Hospital 抗議する in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Tens of thousands of nurses and 救急車 staff are walking off the 職業 in the U.K. in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country's public health system. Monday's ストライキ is the 最新の in a wave of strikes that has 混乱に陥れる／中断させるd Britons' lives for months as 労働者s 需要・要求する 支払う／賃金 raises to keep pace with 二塁打-digit インフレーション. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
A protestor with a megaphone shouts スローガンs in 前線 of Big Ben as nurses of the nearby St. Thomas' Hospital 抗議する in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Tens of thousands of nurses and 救急車 staff walked off the 職業 in the U.K. Monday in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of Britain's public health system. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Nurses of the University College Hospital 抗議する in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Tens of thousands of nurses and 救急車 staff are walking off the 職業 in the U.K. in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country's public health system. Monday's ストライキ is the 最新の in a wave of strikes that has 混乱に陥れる／中断させるd Britons' lives for months as 労働者s 需要・要求する 支払う／賃金 raises to keep pace with 二塁打-digit インフレーション. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
