Hundreds of Health Services Union members at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital walked off the job聽in support of their claim for a fair pay rise. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Two hundred frontline workers at Westmead Hospital had to take industrial action before management agreed to supply them with personal protective equipment. Jim McIlroy 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Unions have launched a plan to tackle the 鈥渂roken鈥 aged care system and protect workers at the front line, reports Jim McIlroy.
The Health Services Union (HSU) expenses affair was a protracted political scandal that, 2006 to 2011, revealed the criminal activity of former HSU national secretary and former Labor politician Craig Thomson as well as former national president and former general secretary of HSU East Michael Williamson.
In 2008 Kathy Jackson succeeded Craig Thomson as general secretary of the HSU. Jackson鈥檚 role in the HSU scandal provides us with an intriguing case study on the relationship between politics and cognitive dissonance.
About 500 members of the Health Services Union (HSU), United Voice, NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) and other unions gathered in Hyde Park on April 19 to "Rally for Respect: Time to Care for Aged Care."
Speakers represented the various health sector unions, as well as UnionsNSW, and Labor federal and state politicians.
Malcolm Turnbull鈥檚 Coalition government has cut billions of dollars from the aged care sector. This has had an enormous impact on the lives of older Australians in care, their families and those who care for them.
Former top dog at the Health Services Union (HSU) Michael Williamson used to joke that 鈥渘othing鈥檚 too good for the workers 鈥 and their representatives鈥, as he brazenly defrauded the union to the tune of $5 million.
Just one lavish, boozy lunch with his cronies would burn through the annual dues ($600) of one of his low-paid union members 鈥 hospital cleaners, orderlies, clerks, porters, etc 鈥 writes journalist, Brad Norington, in Planet Jackson.
"Disability 鈥 not for sale!" was one of the slogans shouted by Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) members as they marched on Parliament House on May 10 to protest against the Victorian Labor government's plan to privatise state-run disability services.
HACSU聽state secretary Lloyd Williams told the rally that Premier Daniel Andrews had broken a promise not to privatise public disability services in Victoria.
Hundreds of Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) members disrupted the Victorian State Labor Conference on November 12 to protest against plans by the Daniel Andrews government to privatise public disability services.
Delegates walked off the conference floor to meet HACSU members, people with disabilities and their friends and families at the Moonee Valley Racecourse where they heard the message loud and clear: No to the privatisation of public disability.
Nearly 70 staff at eheadspace 鈥 the national youth mental health service headspace's round-the-clock telephone and online counselling provider 鈥 were told they had just 24 hours to sign on to individual agreements that locked in year-long wage freezes, or they would lose their jobs.
A dispute has been listed in the Fair Work Commission after headspace refused requests to extend the deadline.
"For an iconic healthcare service, they don't treat their staff with any better respect than 7-Eleven or Grill'd," Health and Community Services Union organiser Serena Ho said.
The Victorian government has turned its back on a major commitment to not contract out disability services to the private sector.
The Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) has been left feeling 鈥渁bsolutely betrayed鈥 by the Daniel Andrews鈥 government鈥檚 decision to break an election promise that declared, 鈥淒isability is not for sale鈥. News of this proposal was not so much announced, as discovered in the closing paragraph of an unrelated document.
The Victorian government has turned its back on a major commitment to not contract out disability services to the private sector.
The Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) has been left feeling 鈥渁bsolutely betrayed鈥 by the Daniel Andrews' government's decision to break an election promise that declared, 鈥淒isability is not for sale鈥. News of this proposal wasn't so much announced, as discovered in the closing paragraph of an unrelated document.
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