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The Secretary of State's Negative Attitude to Nurses
I think I was the first one to actually maybe put my head above the parapat about this secretary of state and I think I did use those words about them. There's a number of reasons for that. After our profession and other healthcare workers, including our ambulance workers, I don't pick up lines for 12 weeks before they got into a room to start to talk about pay. So you just got the impression straight away that the secretary of state was not sincerely interested in what you and I would understand as an honest and open negotiation process. You could tell straight away that he had a sort of hardened belligerent, my way or the highway sort of approach to this. And it was not
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