In a letter to the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association, 1,000 workers have demanded a meeting “to call on elected officials to adopt a 30 percent pay increase claim.”
The health unions’ “campaign” against paid parking is a fraud, designed to allow workers to let off steam, while preventing any real challenge to the latest attack on take-home pay.
For the second time in a week, workers demonstrated at Westmead Hospital in opposition to the assault on Palestine and Israel’s targeting of health workers.
Hundreds of nurses, midwives, doctors and other health workers, horrified by the criminal targeting of hospitals and civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, protested in Melbourne and Sydney.
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Opposition to the deal among health workers is broader than that reflected in the 42 percent “no” vote. This result was engineered by the union leadership, which adopted a “neutral” stance, tacitly endorsing the offer.
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The purpose of this claim is to convince workers that they can fight for genuine improvements to pay and conditions within the union bureaucracy, despite the betrayals of the past.