UK : Junior doctors threaten trade union dispute of the century with rolling strikes from September
“The following two months are crucial for the Conservatives,” he wrote. “We are about to throw a massive spanner in their works.”
So far, the strikes have resulted in the cancellation of
He suggested that future strikes would be planned to have a still greater impact,
“It’s the trade union dispute of this century. That’s no exaggeration. This is about to be ratcheted up by an order of magnitude,” he wrote.
On Thursday night, Ellen McCourt chairman of the BMA junior doctors committee, said: “JDC has today made a formal request for a special meeting of BMA Council to authorise a rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September."
She said: "Junior doctors still have serious concerns about the proposed contract, particularly that it will fuel the current workforce crisis, and that it fails to treat all doctors fairly.
"With just eight weeks before the first group of doctors are moved onto the new contract, progress needs to be made and time is running out.”
The union said its efforts to engage with the Government have been met with a “deafening silence”.