People who are intoxicated and disorderly on Sydney’s streets this weekend could find themselves locked in a sobering-up centre. But Last Drinks Coalition spokesman and NSWNMA general-secretary Brett Holmes says this is a haphazard approach that will put safety at risk. The New South Wales Government is starting its trial of the centres in Sydney’s […]
A NSWNMA negotiation team met with SAN nurses on 18 June 2013 to consider the employer’s latest offer for a new EBA. Nurses at the meeting rejected the offer and voted for three conditions to make a new agreement acceptable. Nurses’ three sticking points are: Fair pay with similar employers The pay offer of 3% […]
Mark Lennon, Secretary of Unions NSW, writes: Public sector unions took action in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission to make sure that workers get both a fair pay rise and the quarter percent super increase to which they are entitled. The Industrial Relations Commission agreed with the unions. The Federal Government has put in place […]
Unions NSW has rejected the state Government’s attempt to sugarcoat its 2013-14 budget, warning that it continues to create a deep social deficit that will need to be addressed by future generations. The budget papers confirm that the Government is shedding jobs faster than expected, with more than 5000 positions cut from the public sector […]
State Member for Wallsend, Sonia Hornery, says the local Liberal Members’ response in Parliament yesterday to her call for pay equality for disability nurses is insulting not only to nurses, but to the people they care for and every community in the state that wants the best care for their most vulnerable residents. Ms Hornery […]
Tony Abbott’s budget reply reveals an attack on students, workers and the superannuation of low earners – but includes tax cuts for billionaires. His plan for a commission of audit is a carbon copy of the Peter Costello report which was used by Campbell Newman to sack nurses and other public servants in Queensland in […]
Industrial Officer for the ACTU Belinda Tkalcevic will today represent the work of unions on a panel in New York with Australia heralded as a world leader in negotiating paid domestic violence leave for employees. Ms Tkalcevic said, “Australian unions have been fighting for, and won, support for sufferers of domestic and family violence to […]
Rula Al’Saffar, president of the Bahrain Nursing Society, was to have presented a seminar at the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association in February but has been unable to get a visa in time. In 2011, Rula was incarcerated and tortured by the Bahrain government after treating protestors injured during anti-government uprisings (part of the Arab […]
The NSWNMA has instructed NEW Law to investigate the possibility of a Class Action for damages for personal injury caused to persons who may have been exposed to environmental tobacco smoke while working in the Corrective Services institutions throughout New South Wales. If you believe that you have suffered personal injury as a result of […]
The critical shortage of disability nurses at the Stockton Residential Centre in Newcastle has highlighted the real impact of the O’Farrell Government’s public sector wage freeze, the NSW Labor Opposition said on Friday (January 25). It has been reported that 40 percent of the Centre’s disability nurse positions remain vacant – with the huge roster […]
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