This informations is taken from a letter in this morning's Guardian from Dominica Jewell of Bazoches-au-Houlem, France
Last November medial staff were awarded bonus payments of between €1 000 and €1 500 for their work on the pandemic.
They have now been awarded a pay rise of !0%
International staff have been offered, free of charge, French citizenship.
In the UK they got a clap. a pay cut, and, if "international," the Foreign Office's hostile environment.
I am not proud.
I'm waiting for the government to offer the nurses 2% and proudly announce that they have DOUBLED their original proposal, and the nurses should now be very grateful.
ReplyDeleteIf he does I'm sure the supportive press will hail it as a triumph of compassion.I've just looked up the current figures for Deaths per 100 000.
ReplyDeleteUK: 188
France: 134
Germany: 88
Canada: 60
Australia: 3.6
N Zealand: 0.5
High up the league of world losers rather than world beaters.Yet Johnson et al are enjoying a bounce in the polls becasue at last they've go something right, in the distribution of the vaccine. We are a dysfunctional nation.