How junior medics have reached the brink of their biggest walkout, in a fight for a 35% hike.
On Monday, thousands of junior doctors in England will start a 72-hour strike. They want a 35% pay rise. Yet doctors are among the highest paid in the public sector. So why do they have the biggest pay claim?
Among some of the older BMA heads, though, there is a sense of disquiet at the new guard. One senior doctor who has now stood down from a leadership role says: "They're undoubtedly much more radical than we have seen before. But they haven't read the room - the pay claim makes them look silly."Publicly, the BMA prefers not to talk about wanting a pay rise. Instead, it uses the term "pay restoration" - to reverse cuts of 26% since 2008.
A junior doctor in 2008 may well be a consultant now, perhaps earning four times in cash terms what they were then. The past decade has not been a boom time for wage growth in many fields, as austerity and the lack of economic growth has held back incomes.
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