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...Mary Perkins jokes that if you were to cut Specsavers’ workers open, “they’ve got green blood”....
...She must at once hasten between wards and evade an arrest warrant triggered by her revolutionary activities, leaving a nurse, Julia Power, to assume complex medical responsibilities....
...“These robots have to be moved around all the time, booted up, monitored during use and then stored away,” says James Wright, an academic at Queen Mary University of London....
...Nurse Mary Seacole throws her arms open in wide embrace. Glittery drag queen Marsha P Johnson, Afro-Brazilian resistance fighter Zumbi dos Palmares and emperor Haile Selassie compete to hold court....
...Cosentini said the first days of 2024 were the worst, when his hospital had to rush to add doctors and nurses and create new wards “because there were too many sick people”....
...Deirdra Orteu, a former nurse who is one of the leaders of the trust’s redevelopment programme, pointed out a ward that has been permanently closed due to a structural problem with its ceiling that is considered...
...The tentative agreement is the latest in a series of new contracts offering substantial pay raises to unionised workers in occupations from nurses and UPS drivers to Hollywood screenwriters....
...The workers involved include nurses, IT specialists and cleaners....
...“It can’t be right that some of the richest people in the country pay tax on their income at 28 per cent whilst the income of a nurse or teacher or train driver bears rates of 40 per cent, including national...
...Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, joint general secretaries of the NEU, claimed the result as a victory for the union movement, saying walkouts by members since the start of 2023, along with the threat of...
...Although nurses were lionised during the Covid-19 emergency, Ruth Dawson, a nurse practitioner at St Mary’s, said she felt there had since been no tangible recognition....
...The union’s general secretary Mary Bousted said there had been no “clear movement” on pay....
...Nurses on Wednesday will begin voting on a pay offer of 5 per cent next year and a one-off sum of at least £1,655 for 2022-23, which the Royal College of Nursing has urged its members to accept....
...Rishi Sunak had hoped the government’s improved pay offer to nurses, accepted by union leaders and now subject to a national ballot, would pave the way for an end to strikes elsewhere in the public sector...
...Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, joint general secretaries of the National Education Union, said on Monday the government had “squandered an opportunity to avoid strike action” and was “unwilling to seriously...
...Ministers and members of the NHS Staff Council, which includes unions representing more than 1mn nurses and other NHS staff covered by a pay framework introduced almost 20 years ago, are in talks about a...
...Wolfgang Koch is all sonorous patience as the Dyer, Michaela Schuster’s Nurse is both impressive and overwrought....
...“The government sees migrant workers as easily jettisoned, they have so few rights,” said Mary Gallagher, an expert in Chinese law and labour politics at the University of Michigan....
...“We don’t earn that much and we are losing a day’s pay,” said Cheryl Carr, a nurse working in clinical education at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, who had found it a difficult decision to join the RCN strike...
...Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, joint general secretaries of the union, said the UK government had “sat on their hands” in the face of pleas to increase teacher pay....
...Albert Pierrepoint was born in March 1905, the middle child of Mary and Henry Pierrepoint....
...Additional reporting by Mary McDougall and Jonathan Wheatley Data visualisation by Amy Borrett...
...Many clinics are no longer testing and isolating patients infected with Covid, and doctors and nurses have been instructed to keep working even if they catch the virus....
.... ★★★★☆ To June 11, nationaltheatre.org.uk Marys Seacole Donmar warehouse, london Another strong woman faces down systemic prejudice in Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Marys Seacole....
...Her mother was a nurse and teacher and her father a professor of mathematics. Both were firmly anti-Thatcher and staunchly leftwing. They raised her as a radical....
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