{"id":10823,"date":"2011-06-30T18:27:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T17:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10823"},"modified":"2011-06-30T18:27:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T17:27:25","slug":"doctors-vote-for-industrial-action-for-first-time-in-36-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/30\/doctors-vote-for-industrial-action-for-first-time-in-36-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors vote for industrial action for first time in 36 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2011\/jun\/30\/doctors-ballot-industrial-action-pensions\" target=\"_blank\">the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"box\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"article-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"article-body-blocks\">\n<blockquote><p>Doctors have voted overwhelmingly to ballot the profession on industrial action to protest against the coalition's plans to overhaul the\u00a0NHS pension scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates at the\u00a0British Medical Association's annual conference in Cardiff\u00a0voted by 87% to 13% in favour of a motion that will see the union seek the views of its 140,000 members about \"all forms of industrial action\".<\/p>\n<p>The vote means the first industrial action by doctors since 1975 is now a very real possibility, given that ministers show no sign of backing down in their determination to push through major changes to NHS staff\u00a0pensions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Utterly reasonable people have as a result made clear they do not trust this government or its motives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Quite right too.<\/p>\n<p>They don't trust it on NHS reforms.<\/p>\n<p>They don't trsut it on\u00a0privatisation.<\/p>\n<p>They don't trsut it to protect patients and services.<\/p>\n<p>And they don't\u00a0trust\u00a0it on pensions.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to supporting my wife on the picket line as she's a GP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the\u00a0Guardian\u00a0reports: Doctors have voted overwhelmingly to ballot the profession on industrial action to protest against the coalition&#8217;s plans to overhaul the\u00a0NHS pension scheme. Delegates<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/30\/doctors-vote-for-industrial-action-for-first-time-in-36-years\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-nhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}