General Secretary of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA), Brett Holmes, will today join nurses and midwives, labour leaders and other public health advocates at a rally to defend Australia’s public health, hospital and Medicare system from a multi-pronged attack by recently elected conservative governments. The rally will be at Sydney Town Hall at […]
With the release of the worst unemployment figures in over a decade, the question on every Australian’s lips is, when is Tony Abbott going to step up and fight for jobs? ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said today’s alarming figures – a sharp increase in the unemployment rate to 6% – must act as a wakeup […]
The Royal Commission shows this is a Government only interested in political point-scoring, not in Australian workers and their jobs. The terms of reference of the Royal Commission announced today by the Abbott Government confirm it is a politically-motivated witch-hunt designed to weaken unions, says the ACTU. ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver said the terms of […]
Six hundred jobs must be added to the economy every day in order for Mr Abbott to fulfil his election promise to create one million new jobs within five years, Australian Unions said today. ACTU President Ged Kearney called on Prime Minister Abbott to use his first Parliamentary statement of the year to outline his jobs […]
General Secretary of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA), Brett Holmes, said nurses would be at the forefront of a protest rally today in Maitland, where NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell and his Cabinet are to meet at Maitland Town Hall. “The O’Farrell Government has announced its intention to fully privatise all state disability services […]
Union members, Medicare staff and one of the architects of the universal health care scheme will mark its 30th anniversary and restate their support for it to remain in public hands. ACTU President Ged Kearney and CPSU Queensland Secretary Bill Marklew will be at Medicare’s Queensland headquarters today [Tuesday 4 February] at noon to cut […]
Acting General Secretary of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA), Judith Kiejda, will today celebrate the 30th anniversary of Medicare’s existence along with other community leaders, health workers and supporters. Update: photos from the event can be seen here. “This Saturday marks 30 years of one of Australia’s greatest achievements,” Ms Kiejda said. “Medicare […]
ACTU President Ged Kearney will today begin a national two-week tour of workplaces to discuss the dangerous direction being set by the Abbott Government for 2014. Ms Kearney said she will visit postal workers in Sydney, healthcare workers in Melbourne and manufacturing workers in Perth, who are among the hundreds of thousands of Australians shut […]
Despite more bad job numbers out today, Australians are still in the dark over what Tony Abbott’s job plan is, said the ACTU. ACTU President Ged Kearney said with 32,000 full time jobs lost in December, 12,000 more in the Commission of Audit’s sights, not to mention massive job losses in the manufacturing industry, Australians […]
Acting General Secretary of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association Judith Kiejda today called on Premier Barry O’Farrell to take advice from his colleague, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, and reject proposals for Sydney’s newest hospital at French’s Forest to be privatised. “The conservative Premier of Queensland and his Health Minister – himself a former leader […]
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