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NSW Nurses and midwives walk off the job after pay negotiations fail
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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9/11/2024
Thousands of nurses and midwives in New South Wales have walked off the job as part of an ongoing pay dispute with the state government
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Rallies have been held across the state today, from regional New South Wales to here in Parramatta
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in Sydney's west, as part of a 12 and a half hour strike by nurses and midwives who are
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fighting for better pay. Even this morning there were scores of nurses outside Premier
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Chris Mins's office in Cogra. Nurses are fighting for a one year 15% pay rise, but the state
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government has rejected that and offered them a three year 10 and a half percent pay
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rise instead. Nurses here say that's not good enough and that they are the lowest paid nurses
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in the country. I'm here because I love my job and I don't want our job to be diminished
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any further than it already is. I think that we should not be fighting for this all the
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time. I've been a nurse for 31 years working for New South Wales Health and it's been constant.
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During a budget estimates hearing, Health Minister Ryan Parr came under fire from the
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opposition for not having resolved this ongoing pay dispute sooner. Mr Park apologised but
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said the government and union had been left in a difficult situation due to the previous
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government's public sector wage cap. To make that up in a single year is simply not possible
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at the moment. Now that doesn't mean that we're not at the table, it doesn't mean that
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we're not working through the issues. I didn't want to get to this stage, I didn't say that
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this was the path that I wanted nurses and midwives to go down. Yesterday the Industrial
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Relations Commission ordered the nurses to not go ahead with this strike action but it's
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clear that they have decided to go ahead with it regardless. Skeleton staffing is expected
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across public hospitals today and patients are being warned to expect longer wait times
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in emergency departments.
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