Junior Doctors Want More Strikes!
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After countless months of unrest, The Junior Doctors Committee of the British Medical Association has decided to request backing for more industrial action from its full council. Further strikes are intended to take place from the beginning of September onward.
Representatives of junior doctors are calling upon the union to authorise this new industrial action after claiming that ministers and the government have not addressed their concerns about the new contract in question. The JDC have become increasingly frustrated by the lack of action from the government following their vote in July which rejected a deal on the new contract agreed with the BMA by 58%.
Dr Ellen McCourt, who stands as the current chair of the JDC, highlighted the frustration of junior doctors everywhere in a letter released on social media platform Twitter to members. McCourt claims the government has remained “persistently silent” on the issues which subsequently led to the rejection of the deal. She then went on to explain that the JDC Executive has voted to reject the new contract in full and call for further negotiations. McCourt said: “In response to the government’s silence, JCD exec has today made a formal request for a special meeting of BMA Council to authorise a rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September.” In a further statement she went on to highlight specific concerns of the JDC about the new contract, suggesting that “it will fuel the current workforce crisis, and… fails to treat all doctors fairly.”