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...But an RMT official manning a suburban London picket line during last Friday’s strike said some members were now working on strike days because of growing financial pressures....
...Care workers and nurses, chefs and butchers are among the occupations where visa sponsorship has surged....
...The latest Home Office figures on visa issuance confirm that this increase was chiefly due to a surge in recruitment of doctors, nurses and care workers, with smaller numbers coming into the tech sector,...
...We are not saying we usurp testing of doctors and nurses and things like that but we should be seen to be critical,” he added....
...Alan Manning, labour market economist at the LSE, says the UK’s minimum wage increases have helped “prevent the worst excesses” but the US federal minimum wage has not increased since 2009....
...C: What type of bird has the same name as the surname of a famous Victorian nurse? A: Which fictional character said, “Please sir, I want some more”?...
...Some sectors already on the list would be expanded, to include all medical practitioners rather than just nurses, as well as a broader range of computer programmers, web developers, and civil and mechanical...
...They are buildings set beside hospitals that can accommodate a mix of uses, from consultations with cancer nurses to yoga and communal activities....
...I had agreed to forgo a sedative — the nurse said that most people made do with an anaesthetic throat spray....
...The trigger for our meeting is his new book Latest Readings (it is dedicated to the doctors and nurses at Addenbrooke’s, his local hospital in Cambridge)....
...For these doctors, it’s not just nameless people in a far-off country who are dying but the cousins of the nurse who has been with them since the beginning of the epidemic....
...There will always be minor exceptions: women aren’t about to start pass-blocking for Peyton Manning, and men shouldn’t be Rockettes. (Sorry.)...
...The generous pay increases of the past decade have left nurses, doctors and teachers well off. The state, moreover, is visibly out of cash....
...The old nurse who ran it retired. So the group, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen another good cause.” I point, sullenly, “A group of disabled Romanian boy orphans.”...
...Penelop’s older brother, George, 34, is manning the counter....
...As for David Cameron, “cyclist, yes; walker, apparently not”, concludes Jonathan Manning, the editor. “We sent two letters but received no reply.”...
...But conventional notions of productivity are pretty hopeless when it comes to describing what doctors, nurses, teachers and social workers actually do....
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