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Is sympathy running out for NHS workers?
When fortune is smiling on your own life, you are filled with generosity towards others and want everything to go well for them too.
But when bad luck and hard times strike, people often become bitter and resentful of those who seem to be having an easier ride.
This is exactly the situation which is now hitting NHS workers including mental health nurses and paramedics who have voted to strike over a pay offer they have slammed as "derisory".
Many members of the public value the work of the NHS and may ordinarily support them in any attempts for greater financial rewards.
But as people struggle to pay their ever increasing food bills and are hit with sky high energy costs and crippling petrol prices, a ripple of discontentment is sweeping through the nation when it comes to workers in the public sector.
To top this, Lancashire firms are making workers redundant and hundreds of people are losing their jobs.
Now NHS workers are demanding a greater slice of taxpayers money, some people have been angered by the recent strike threats and believe the public sector should be grateful for what they have got.
However, others argue that NHS staff do a great job and have every right to fight for the pay they deserve.
For the full story see Monday's Lancashire Evening Post.
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