My friends from other hospitals tell me some of them are forbidden from striking.

An illegal and unethical notion and cannot be upheld in court, but, of course, it won't be put in writing.

You can strike, of course, senior management will say, but shame about that potential promotion you want in six months or five years' time.

A consultant from a large teaching hospital put a public Facebook post stating "If you strike, wear a white ribbon so I know who you are and what you did."

The ward manager calls all the ward nurses into a meeting and tells them that she "personally supports their strike, but she will need each of their names in writing if they plan to strike", saying in such a way that makes the nurses uneasy. Some of them have decided against striking and

I am lucky. My department is sane and humane. My colleagues have all sworn to rise together and fall together. Senior management can't fire all of us.

My seniors offer support, although they themselves cannot strike because they are the last line of support.