Workers Revolutionary Party
Demonstrators at UCLH make it clear that they want a 15% pay rise or else Johnson will have to go
OVER 250 London NHS doctors, nurses and hospital workers demonstrated through the West End on Saturday, demanding a 15 per cent pay increase and a stop to NHS privatisation.
The lively march from UCLH hospital to Downing Street was part of a National Day of Action on Saturday ahead of today’s 73rd anniversary of the birth of the NHS.
Whittington Hospital Unison, Unite Housing Workers and Camden Unison were prominent on the route.
Marchers were furious that after their dedication and self-sacrifice caring for Covid-19 patients during the pandemic, and the deaths of over 1,500 health and care workers, all PM Boris Johnson could offer was a ‘handclap for heroes’ followed by an insulting one per cent pay rise from the disgraced former Tory Health Secretary Hancock.