Around 5,000 nurses and midwives dressed in scrubs and face masks marched on NSW parliament today, as thousands more participated in a statewide strike to demand nurse-to-patient ratios on every shift across the public health system. Burnout from the COVID-19 pandemic and fed up with the NSW government’s refusal to prioritise safe staffing in public […]
Nurses and midwives will walk off the job and rally outside Parliament House TOMORROW, Tuesday 15 February, demanding the NSW Premier resolve the staffing crisis in public hospitals. Thousands of NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) members will take part in over 20 rallies tomorrow, as part of the statewide strike to highlight the government’s […]
Thousands of nurses and midwives from more than 150 public hospitals and health services will strike statewide next Tuesday 15 February, over the NSW government’s failure to introduce nurse-to-patient ratios on every shift. Over the past week, 99 per cent of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) branches who voted were in favour of […]
Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) will participate in coordinated industrial action on Wednesday (4 March), as part of a union-led national day of action. Hundreds of nurses and midwives will take to the streets in Sydney and Newcastle to highlight their opposition to the Federal Government’s attacks on workers’ rights, Medicare […]
In one of the most dramatic local confrontations between nurses and midwives and the State Government in decades, NSW Nurses & Midwives Association (NSWNMA) members at Bathurst Base Hospital will start a 24-hour strike at 7am Friday 29 November, to protest against the Western NSW Local Health District’s decision to close five beds in the […]
NSW Nurses & Midwives Association members at Bathurst Base Hospital have today (26 November) voted, in a secret ballot at a special NSWNMA branch meeting, to strike for 24 hours on Friday to protest against the Western NSW Local Health District’s decision to close five beds in the hospital’s medical ward from December 9. The […]
Our strike on Wednesday July 24 attracted a lot of media attention in NSW … and from other parts of the world. Here are all the headlines. Striking NSW nurses vote for new round of industrial action The Guardian in the UK! Thousands of nurses from 180 NSW hospitals have voted during a statewide strike […]
Almost 5000 nurses and midwives met at Sydney Olympic Park and 17 regional webcast venues today in a defiant strike protest at the NSW Government’s refusal to negotiate improvements to the successful nursing hours/ratios system. Many more nurses and midwives also struck in remote towns, with local rallies and activities in support of the NSWNMA […]
Strike to affect more than 180 public hospitals and community health services. Buses and trains bring nurses and midwives to Sydney mass meeting. Sydney mass meeting webcast to 17 regional centres NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) members at more than 180 NSW public hospitals and community health services will strike, or take other protest […]
The final list of NSWNMA branches that have voted to strike. LHD Branch Name Murrumbidgee Local Health District Albury Base Hospital Murrumbidgee Local Health District Albury Mental Health Community Nurses Murrumbidgee Local Health District Albury Mental Health Nurses – Nolan House Hunter New England Local Health District Armidale Community Health & Hospital Western Sydney Local Health District Auburn District Hospital Northern NSW Local Health District […]
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