Southern NSW nurses and midwives rally Moruya July 24, 2024

Bay Post-Moruya Examiner

Nurses and midwives rally outside Moruya hospital for an increase in wages to help with the retention of nurses in NSW and with rising daily living costs.

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00:00with your patients. 11.5% of this 15% is back pay that they have owed us from when they never gave

00:06us our pay rise through COVID. We worked through a global pandemic and they gave us hero case.

00:12So 11.5% of this is back pay which gives us a 3.5% pay rise which is not even in line with the cost

00:18of living. We should be asking for more. This is the bare minimum that they can be giving us

00:23and recognising us for what we've done and the sacrifices we make for the community.

00:27We need ratios for patient safety, not just the big hospitals. Our patients are just as important

00:34and we probably see more and sicker than those big hospitals do in a quicker time frame. We

00:40had 14 ambulances in four hours and I bet you the Sydney hospitals don't do that half the time.

00:45Bullshit. We need our money and we need ratios. Because we won't attract nurses to fill ratios

00:52without a pay rise. Why wouldn't you go to Queensland? Why wouldn't you go to Canberra?

00:56Why wouldn't you go to Victoria? They're all doing better than us. They can build a beautiful

01:00new hospital that no one will be in it. Exactly. Stand up, fight back. What do we want? 15%.

01:10When do we want it? Now. Fix the mess. Stop the stress. When nurses and midwives are under attack

01:17what do we do? Stand up, fight back. 15%!

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