Junior doctors remain strong
Junior doctors in the British Medical Association (BMA) struck again 24-28 February. As noted repeatedly in Solidarity , their campaign for “pay restoration” — a real-terms pay rise and a plan to restore pay to the real-terms level of 2008 — has shown energy and determination, at least by the standard of other unions involved in last year’s disputes. These five days will take their running total in this campaign to 39. The rest of the labour movement should be doing much more to support junior doctors’ fight, on the picket lines, through broader solidarity and through pressure on the Labour...