A Minimum Service Bill? If only the Government bothered to meet its own standards 💬 FisherAndrew79 for ipaperviews
‘Nurses – like teachers, firefighters and rail workers – are raising the alarm about the government’s failure to provide minimum service levels,’ writes Andrew Fisher which would force workers and unions to collude in undermining their own interests.– threatening to bankrupt unions or sack workers if they fail to provide minimum services levels when they have democratically voted for strike action.
We live in an age where politicians demand more of us, while delivering less themselves. Where are our minimum service levels? While ministers complain about workers on strike, they are overseeing public service failure on a monumental scale. Take ambulance response times for example. A Government ministerBut the truth is that Government failure is failing us all every day – which is why paramedics are on strike. For category two calls, which include strokes and heart attacks, the average response time is supposed to be 18 minutes.
who died after waiting 13 hours for an ambulance after having a stroke. Just for clarity, this was not on a strike day.
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