11 thoughts on “March 30th – Some Good News With John Krasinski”
GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER ENGLAND – Article 7 APRIL
“There are some of the most inventive and diligent people working anywhere in the business of caring for others, but they have generally done so without much credit.
This coronavirus crisis is forcing an urgent re-evaluation of that, along with all those other jobs that were previously classed as low-value yet now turn out to be the most important in the country.
Words are not enough, and nor is clapping; you can praise care workers to the skies, but if you’re paying them the minimum amount in 15-minute segments, without security of hours or of employment, without sick or holiday pay, then the praise is hollow.
You can wax sentimental about the holy vocation of nursing, but you cannot then bring second-year students on to the frontline to fight coronavirus and still expect them to pay their tuition fees. There’s an old Irish saying ‘Talk’s cheap but it takes money to buy booze!’
You cannot claim, as some highprofile politicians have tried to do that this isn’t the right time to talk about pay rises; it is the best and only time to talk about pay rises, when we have finally realised with a jolt, just how much we rely on people who put their jobs ahead of their own safety.
GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER ENGLAND – Article 7 APRIL
“There are some of the most inventive and diligent people working anywhere in the business of caring for others, but they have generally done so without much credit.
This coronavirus crisis is forcing an urgent re-evaluation of that, along with all those other jobs that were previously classed as low-value yet now turn out to be the most important in the country.
Words are not enough, and nor is clapping; you can praise care workers to the skies, but if you’re paying them the minimum amount in 15-minute segments, without security of hours or of employment, without sick or holiday pay, then the praise is hollow.
You can wax sentimental about the holy vocation of nursing, but you cannot then bring second-year students on to the frontline to fight coronavirus and still expect them to pay their tuition fees. There’s an old Irish saying ‘Talk’s cheap but it takes money to buy booze!’
You cannot claim, as some highprofile politicians have tried to do that this isn’t the right time to talk about pay rises; it is the best and only time to talk about pay rises, when we have finally realised with a jolt, just how much we rely on people who put their jobs ahead of their own safety.