Tuesday, 19 June 2018

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALES CAN BE GREEDY (letter to Dom Post, June 20)



“Our nurses poured cold water on their latest pay offer” (June 19), and “Mother Nature” is set to do the same to Wellington.
Considering the calamities “Mother Nature” dishes out constantly, a package of $500 million for nurses seems above and beyond.

We like to picture nurses as Florence Nightingales which individually they are, on the whole. And naturally they advocate for their patients. But even Florence Nightingales can be greedy. 

They should think of the needy. Beyond the ward doors are unemployed people, hungry people, homeless people, mentally sick people, imprisoned people, abused people – even farming people forced to slaughter their stock. None of them can wield the threat of strike action to get what they want.
We credit “Mother Nature” as being in charge of the weather. But in charge of everything and credited by most of us with nothing, is Father God.

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