Pausing mortgages, carpooling to save on fuel, and asking for help to feed themselves - they're the many ways health staff say they're making ends meet.
Increases have been capped at 2.75 per cent a year or 2.5 per cent plus a bonusAs rising inflation and interest rates stretch their pay cheques further each month, hospital workers are pushing for what they say is a fair pay rise after two years of living on the front lines of COVID.
They were joined by colleagues from the police and firefighters unions, as well as the building and construction union, as pressure against the government's refusal to budge grows.Layne Poulsen is a theatre orderly at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and was among the crowd today. Mr Poulsen and his colleagues, many of whom live in the outer suburbs, have taken to carpooling to work in an effort to save money on fuel.
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