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To: The Government
Wage increase for Nurses - Now!
On return to Parliament on April 21 2020, the Government must put forward a bill, increasing income and dividend tax by 1p, to provide an estimated £6Bn, ringfenced for the NHS, with all nurses receiving a 10% increase, backdated to 1st March 2020.
Why is this important?
Nurses have been on the front line of our battle against Covid - 19, yet new nurses receive a salary barely above the minimum wage. These highly skilled and dedicated workers have borne the brunt of the last 10 years of austerity, yet are supposed to put their lives on the line day and daily. They do it out of a sense of duty, but loyalty doesn't buy the groceries or pay the rent. So let's see this as the first step in paying them and people like them, what they are worth to society, not the minimum we can get away with. This will cost the average person just over £3 per week, a small price to pay for these heroes and heroines.
