Tonight: the fourth NSWNMA Nurses & Midwives Short Film Festival

Twelve short films, written and produced by NSW nurses and midwives, for the NSW Nurses & Midwives Association’s (NSWNMA) fourth Nurses & Midwives Short Film Festival, will premiere tonight, Thursday May 9, at the NSWNMA Gadigal Auditorium in Waterloo. Tonight’s Festival screening will be launched by Sydney TV and documentary producer, Patrick McInerney, who worked […]

Thought Fiji was paradise? Think again.

Ahead of the launch of regular flights to Australia of the rebranded Fiji Airways next month, unions are urging potential Australian tourists to find out more about the attacks on human and workers’ rights in Fiji and think twice before visiting the island. Unions have today launched a new global online campaign aimed at raising […]

Export of chrysotile asbestos must be controlled under Rotterdam Convention

Exports of chrysotile asbestos must be controlled to limit the death toll from the deadly substance in developing nations, the ACTU said today. ACTU President Ged Kearney said that the 6th Annual Conference on the Rotterdam Convention, in Geneva, Switzerland, must put chrysotile asbestos on its list of hazardous substances that needed to be monitored […]

Liverpool and Bankstown hospitals hold launches

NSWNMA members at two of western Sydney’s biggest hospitals – Liverpool and Bankstown – and their nearby community health services today officially launched their local campaigns for a new Public Health System Nurses & Midwives (State) Award. The claim challenges the O’Farrell Government to build on the safer hospital staffing levels introduced in 2011 under […]

Bega-Pambula campaign launch

NSWNMA members at Bega and Pambula hospitals and nearby community health services will today officially launch their local campaign for a new Public Health System Nurses & Midwives (State) Award. Ratios put patient safety first Bega-Pambula campaign launch details Date: Monday, 29 April 2013 Time: 10.00am – 11.00am Venue: Littleton Park, Bega Speakers NSWNMA Bega […]

Five Sydney hospitals launch campaigns today

NSWNMA members at five Sydney hospitals and their nearby community health services will on Monday 29 April officially launch their local campaigns for a new Public Health System Nurses & Midwives (State) Award, which challenges the O’Farrell Government to build on the safer hospital staffing levels introduced in 2011 under an agreement between the NSWNMA […]

Local campaigns to launch in Auburn, Moree and Narrabri today

NSWNMA members at three hospitals – Auburn, Moree and Narrabri – and their nearby community health services will on Friday, 26 April, officially launch their local campaigns for a new Public Health System Nurses & Midwives (State) Award, which challenges the O’Farrell Government to build on the safer hospital staffing levels introduced in 2011 under […]

Super Wednesday – 7 local ratio campaigns launch today!

Throughout the day launches are being held at Nepean, Manly, Cowra, Griffith, Parkes, Shellharbour and Taree. On Friday launches are being held at Auburn, Moree and Narrabri. ‘Ratios put patient safety first’ Super Wednesday campaign launch details Date: Wednesday, 24 April 2013 Nepean (Nepean Hospital, Penrith Mental Health & Penrith Community Health branches) Time: 12.30pm […]

RNSH nurses: 1 to 3 in every ED!

NSWNMA members at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital and nearby community health and community mental health services today launched their local campaign for a new Public Health System Nurses & Midwives (State) Award, which challenges the O’Farrell Government to build on the safer hospital staffing levels introduced in 2011 under an agreement between the NSWNMA […]

Port Macquarie nurses and midwives launch nurse ratios campaign

NSWNMA members at Port Macquarie Base Hospital and nearby community health services today launched their local campaign for a new Public Health System Nurses & Midwives (State) Award, which challenges the O’Farrell Government to build on the safer hospital staffing levels introduced in 2011 under an agreement between the NSWNMA and previous Labor government. The […]

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