If you're in a position where you potentially have the lives of others in your hands, and you choose not to honour your obligations in order to line your pocket, you've no business being there in the first place. The fact that you're preemptively planning to do so prior to attaining the role is actually rather depressing. I'm not for a moment suggesting that nurses don't deserve more and better - and in the unlikely event that my support would be meaningful, they'd most certainly have it - but if they were to start using the people in their care as pawns, they would inevitably lose huge amounts of trust and goodwill.

Perhaps some form of agreement similar to the army/police, whereby they forgo the right to strike and are compensated accordingly, would be a fair compromise.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 1:23, Reply)