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Hunter ambos in statewide campaign to get new responsibilities and a 30 per cent pay rise

Ambos want more work and 30% pay rise

Newcastle Herald

Five weeks of fury: Hunter paramedics in statewide industrial action

NSW paramedics are intensifying their campaign for equal pay with interstate counterparts in "five weeks of fury" ahead of the NSW election.

Newcastle Herald

Free CPR lessons as ambos promise pre-election fury

NSW paramedics are intensifying their campaign for equal pay with interstate counterparts in "five weeks of fury" ahead of the NSW election.

AAP

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New South Wales union calls for royal commission into health spending 'mismanagement'

Tess Oxley works in western Sydney, where she says patients are calling for an ambulance to get health care because they can't get into a GP — an issue highlighted by new union research into NSW Health funding.

ABC News

Union says NSW health system ‘at breaking point’ and calls for royal commission into funding

Report commissioned by Health Services Union is scathing of failure to invest in community and preventative healthcare

The Guardian - AU

Royal commission into NSW health funding a must: HSU

The Health Services Union says a royal commission into the NSW health system's $33 billion budget is needed because funds are not reaching patients.

AAP

Clash over claim aged care workers better off at KFC

The Health Services Union is pleading its case for a 15 per cent rise to be implemented immediately, rather than phased in over a two-year period.

AAP

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Unions want to slug non-members for wins

All employees subject to an enterprise agreement would have to contribute money to a union under a proposal prompted by declining membership.

AAP

Foul play in Fowler: Labor’s game plan didn’t follow the basic rules of fair play

To lose an unlosable seat was bad enough. But to lose an effective player like Kristina Keneally as well was sheer incompetence, Crikey readers say.

Crikey

Aged care on brink of collapse: union

Workers who care for older Australians will resign in droves unless aged care staff get a significant pay increase, a survey shows.

AAP

State Opposition vows to fund 500 new paramedics in rural New South Wales

Labor is vowing to fix rural and regional health in NSW, starting with hiring more paramedics.

ABC News

Isolation period cut, with calls for Albanese to further ease COVID-19 rules

National cabinet will cut the COVID-19 isolation period from seven to five days as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces calls to ease more restrictions.

The New Daily

Leaders meet to discuss isolation changes

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will host national cabinet with his state and territory counterparts to discuss shortening COVID-19 isolation time.

AAP

Health union joins NSW Premier's push to change mandatory COVID-19 isolation rules

The union that represents workers in hospitals and the aged care sector says Australia needs to start trusting people to do the right thing and stay home if sick, instead of mandating isolation periods.

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Premiers back COVID isolation shortening

State premiers have called for a shortening of the mandatory isolation period for people with COVID-19, ahead of Wednesday's national cabinet meeting.

ABC News

Federal government promises to fund potential pay rise for aged care workers

The Federal Government promises to pick up the bill for any potential pay rise for aged care workers in a submission to the Fair Work Commission.

The Guardian - AU

‘Chaos’: Australian doctors call for renewed focus on Covid-19 as winter sets in

Labor urged to revive national pandemic strategy while medical bodies warn of ‘looming disaster’ from flu, Covid and staff burnouts

Newcastle Herald

'Slap in the face': Hunter nurses angry over wage and workforce announcements

"We are haemorrhaging experienced nurses every day and this is not how to fix the issue."

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NSW wage boost 'insult to injury': unions

Nurses, teachers and other public servants will get a three per cent pay rise in the NSW budget, but it's unlikely to prevent further industrial action.

Newcastle Herald

Paramedics welcome job boost to help "worked to the bone" workforce

The Health Services Union says the Hunter will be a "significant focus" when it comes time to determine where more than 2000 new paramedics will be dispatched, a win for the region's underresourced and overworked ambos.

AAP

Union welcomes NSW paramedics boost

NSW paramedics ranks will be boosted by 2000 new recruits as unions warn frontline workers could lose thousands of dollars under wage caps and inflation.

ABC News

NSW to get almost 2,000 more paramedics to improve response times, staff shortages

Budget funding estimated at close to $2 billion over the next four years is set to provide 1,858 extra paramedics and dozens more ambulance stations in NSW to help cope with increasing demand.

The Guardian - AU

Health workers’ union takes fight for kitchen staff in NSW aged care home to federal court

Case to test the limits of outsourcing in sector amid concern about food standards in some facilities

AAP

Aged care workers bid for higher wages

Australia's aged care workers are underpaid compared to someone working at Bunnings or at a pub, the Fair Work Commission has been told.

Crikey

Aged care workers call for higher wages

A hearing to consider wage rises of up to 25 per cent for aged care workers is underway at the Fair Work Commission.

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