The BMA don't come out of this well.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rs-strikes
Staff at the BMA union are due to go on strike to coincide with the six-day resident doctors’ strike on 7 April. The BMA’s most recent pay offer to its staff of 2.75% is lower than the latest recommendation of 3.5% to resident doctors.
BMA HQ is in London, but presumably nobody there pays expensive housing costs or has student loans and all the other things the BMA talk about as problems for themselves.
Also some friction with the other NHS unions, by the sound of it. I think too there's a broader problem for trade unions with some of this stuff. The workers' rights bill is a significant achievement, and people are broadly in favour of workers rights. But that could change if the people who they see doing are well are people who are doing well anyway, like doctors (even if the pension isn't cash in hand now). Nigel Farage must be laughing his arse off.
- By Bones McCoy