Just rewards.
Nurses are not just angry at the proposed abolition of special duty payments, they are livid. It is matter of basic bread and butter, not the cream on the cake. Perhaps it would not matter if nurses were adequately rewarded in the first place. The real issue is that nurses are grossly underpaid in the first place. Whether we like to class ourselves as highly skilled workers or as professional people, our rates of pay are ridiculously low. Some skilled workers are earning £20,000 a year, while many professional people are earning much more than that. Why are we paid less than teachers, and much less than policeman? Are we not as important to the nation's well being as they are?
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