Why we need full pay restoration

Doctors in the UK today are paid around 30% less than they were in 2008 after taking into account inflation measured by the retail price index.1 In medical speak, we might say that pay cuts have had an insidious onset. If we cast our minds back to 2008, we were in the middle of a global financial crisis. The now debunked myth that the crisis was caused by overspending from the government was used to justify subsequent pay freezes across the public sector.2 Although the pay freezes were lifted in the early 2010s, public sector workers in the UK have never seen their pay increase to match inflation.Time to wake up to the pay cutsThe slow creep of the pay cuts made them a lot easier to swallow. Unless you were paying close attention to the British Medical Association (BMA) or other trade unions, you might not have even known…
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