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...Nurses, baristas, graduate students, actors and screenwriters all walked off the job in the US this year, many citing a desire to preserve middle-class lifestyles that have been squeezed by persistent inflation...
...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....
...In November 1972, Roger Bontems, a 36-year-old peasants’ son from the Vosges region of eastern France, was guillotined for his part in a prison escape during which a fellow inmate cut the throats of a nurse...
...Debt for a nurse currently averages around £48,000, for example....
...Other unions, including those that represent LA’s teachers and nurses, have also been offering their support to strikers....
...[AUDIO CLIP OF STRIKE] Taylor Nicole Rogers From nurses and doctors to Hollywood actors and writers to autoworkers, and then almost airline pilots and UPS drivers....
...But of course, it had the opposite effect, reports the FT’s Taylor Nicole Rogers....
...Trevor Eliot Bowes is suitably grave as the philosopher tutor Seneca, and Amy J Payne walks away with her scene-stealing opportunity as nurse Arnalta....
...Hospital administrators were forced to recruit more nurses after 7,000 in New York City walked out in January, citing burnout from heavy patient loads....
...Jo McInnes’s nurse and Paul Higgins’s friar try, as ersatz parents, to forestall disaster....
.../ From Roger Carroll, London KT3, UK...
...And so you have much more equal step in a sense between being a nurse and being the head of the hospital or being a teacher and being the headmaster. You’re equal steps all the way up....
.../ From Roger Crisp, Director, The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK...
...“But there’s a lot of sympathy for the nurses,” he added....
...The FT’s Taylor Nicole Rogers investigates. “We have to invest much more in our future selves”....
...The interior-design studio’s charitable arm, TP Caring Spaces, works to improve underfunded spaces – community halls, recovery centres and nurses’ break rooms....
...An old boy on a mobility scooter nurses a Guinness and looks around curiously....
...The perfect festival for those who like to balance wellness and raving, SGP also offers spa treatments, yoga and meditation sessions and even IV drips administered by trained nurses to those who partied...
...The health ministry said in July that nearly 690,000 additional nurses would be required by 2040 to meet rising demand....
...The best guide to the missing pieces of the map is another walker, John Rogers. The YouTube reports Rogers delivered during Covid lockdowns were immensely popular....
...Smaller investors have pulled back from bearish markets as they nurse heavy losses from this year’s sell-off....
...taylor.rogers@ft.com Claire Bushey contributed reporting...
...Though hospitalisations have been falling in New York state since the Delta variant spiked in August, nurses’ unions say the ratio of nurses and doctors to patients was already dangerously out of balance...
...Nurses are striking in Massachusetts and New York over low staffing levels that they say make it impossible to provide quality care to patients....
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