Will be homeless in January

Nonni is a nurse with a husband and four children in Bristol BBC interview via video in November.

The family can no longer afford the rent, even though both parents are working. They had always paid their rent on time in the ten years they’d lived there, but now rising prices have made them homeless since January.

– The documentary really resonated with me, admits nurse Ingrid Jahren Scudder from Norway, who also lives in Bristol where she studied sociology and works part time as a nurse in a GP’s office.

– We have a large number of people in this country right now who can’t live on their paycheck, even if they have college degrees and work 100 percent in secure, often public jobs, Scudder told Sykepleien.

High inflation and nurse flights

Since 1979, nurses have received around a 2 per cent increase in salary each year, but this year inflation in the UK was very high, and the state by 10.7 percent in November.

In October, the figure stood at 11.1 percent, the highest in 41 years.

This has hit British nurses hard, and the national health care system, the NHS, has experienced the biggest exodus of nurses in years this year.

The starting salary is around NOK 328,000

The average salary of nurses in the UK is 37,000 pounds a year, almost NOK 449,000. That figure includes entry-level salaries, which are just over £27,000 (about NOK 328,000), and those of senior managers, which can be as high as £110,000 a year, just over NOK 1.33 million (at exchange rates as of December 14).

Experienced nurses now earn 20 percent less in real wages than in 2010, RCN claims.

Only get £50 cover per day of strike

Despite the fact that the nurses were already in a dire financial situation, they would not be able to make up for the lost wages if they went on duty on December 15 and 20, when two strikes would take place. But they have a grant from RCN of £50 a day.

Yesterday the BBC told about nurse Lizzie who is unable to join a unionand if he did, he would have no chance of missing out on two days’ pay.

The British nurses’ strike is different to ours in Norway. Firstly, there is no similar opportunity to attack in this way. At NSF, the nurses were on strike from the time they were laid off to the end.

RCN payment demands are typical of demands that NSF will address in a revision of the usual rates in primary and intermediate settlements with strike access. During the strike, members received contributions from the NSF strike fund that matched their net pay, as they paid no taxes on strike contributions.

But there is also access to short-term political strikes in Norway. Then the strike goes to the authorities and not the collective bargaining parties.