Junior
Doctors on the picket line today at the Royal Stoke University
Hospital were in a defiant mood. Their confidence has grown since the
last strike in January. At times the noise made by the Junior Doctors
and their supporters with singing and klaxons was so so loud that
even the horns of passing cars could not be heard!
There
were more Junior Doctors this time than in January. After and hour or
so about twenty of the Doctors went to set up a second picket on
another entrance and there was a third outside the Harplands.
A
firefighter in uniform turned up to the picket with cakes and a
message of support for Doctors on strike and tea and coffee was
brought out of the hospital by other NHS staff.
The
pig-headed approach by 'health' minister Jeremy Hunt has angered not
just Junior Doctors but the vast majority of NHS staff and millions
across the country as well.
Cait,
who had come to support the doctors told us, “This is the first
time I've been on a picket line since the miner's strike but I had to
come along to show my support.”
Joe
Cairns, an ex-miner who did twelve months on strike in 1984/85, had
not come alone to show support but brought his whole family as well!
NSSN Staffordshire members were also there to
show support and also helped on campaign stalls in support of Junior Doctors
last Friday, Monday and today.
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| NSSN Staffordshire supporters with Junior Doctor's on the picket line in January |
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