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Healthcare is at risk of being undermined as doctors and other healthcare staff face ‘a sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric’ the BMA has warned.

The association has joined seven other trade unions in demanding an end to the ‘escalating use of hostile language’ against people from overseas living in the UK, in a joint statement published today.

The statement, which has been backed by organisations including the Royal College of Nursing, the Society of Radiographers along with Unison, Unite and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, calls on politicians and the media to end the spread of misinformation which is resulting in the ‘blatant scapegoating of migrant communities’.

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[–] GoldenFigApple@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of this related article about why unions have a tricky time supporting migrant workers. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/an-indictment-of-the-trade-union-movement-why-no-one-is-organising-seasonal-workers/

tl;dr seasonal workers don't become members and so the union can't/won't support them.