Labour MPs join nurses on picket lines – nurses strike, as it happened
by Christy Cooney (now); Geneva Abdul and Tobi Thomas from World news | The Guardian on (#66VST)
Multiple Labour MPs join picket lines after Tory MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich urges government to improve offer
On the picket line outside St Thomas' hospital in Westminster, Linda Tovey, a critical care nurse, said: It's increasingly difficult to come to work and go home and think: Actually I don't think I can turn the heating on.'
My wages aren't bad for a nurse but I still have to think about what I'm doing with my money every month and that is not the position I imagined myself being in.
People do a huge amount of extra work, in terms of studying and all that kind of stuff, and you don't get the recognition in terms of wages.