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manchestereveningnews.co.ukIt’s a blustery summer morning in Manchester, and the scene on Oxford Road is a typical one - students clutching books, the odd tourist, buses and cyclists roaring by.
But adding to the vista today is a sea of vivid orange bucket hats outside the entrance to the Manchester Royal Infirmary – the picket line of the latest junior doctors’ strike.
It’s the first day of the nationwide strike, their 11th in 20 months, calling for pay restoration to a sector which they say has seen its pay cut by more than a quarter in real terms (i.e.
not rising with inflation). A 29-year-old resident doctor*, now training to be a GP, said: “Our pay has dropped by over 25% compared to what it was in 2008.
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