12-21-2022, 08:01 PM
The Liberal Party notes with great sadness the recent industrial action by nurses and ambulance crews, part of wider strike action across the economy this month.
We believe the Government has stubbornly refused to accept that 12 years of austerity and wage restraint has left a vast number of hardworking people in this country without the financial resources to meet rising energy and food bills this winter.
Many employees have been left with the stark choice of industrial action to protect their income, and the health and wellbeing of their families or passively face the unimaginable prospects of cold, ill-health and crippling energy bills.
As such the Liberal Party acknowledges their right to withdraw their labour as hard as this is for them professionally to do so.
The Liberal Party calls upon the government to recognise that key workers have gone on strike as a last resort and to re-enter pay negotiations in an acknowledgement of these hard facts and offer a settlement which recognises their plight.
We believe the Government has stubbornly refused to accept that 12 years of austerity and wage restraint has left a vast number of hardworking people in this country without the financial resources to meet rising energy and food bills this winter.
Many employees have been left with the stark choice of industrial action to protect their income, and the health and wellbeing of their families or passively face the unimaginable prospects of cold, ill-health and crippling energy bills.
As such the Liberal Party acknowledges their right to withdraw their labour as hard as this is for them professionally to do so.
The Liberal Party calls upon the government to recognise that key workers have gone on strike as a last resort and to re-enter pay negotiations in an acknowledgement of these hard facts and offer a settlement which recognises their plight.