Major delays are expected in New South Wales hospitals this week, with thousands of health care workers planning to walk off the job. Gabrielle_Boyle 9News DETAILS:
Workers across the ambulance, allied health, administration, catering, wards, cleaning and security areas will ask for a pay rise of more than 2.5 per cent.
Stop work meetings will take place across metro and regional hospitals, while paramedics will stop work from 7am to 8am to vote on further industrial action.NSW workers across the ambulance, allied health, admin, catering, wards, cleaning and security areas will ask for a pay rise of more than 2.5 per cent., who took to the streets to demand better pay and working conditions.
The Health Services Union claims despite trying to start legitimate bargaining for productivity-based pay rises, health and hospital workers have been left with no other option but to strike. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows inflation running at 3.5 per cent, with economists predicting it will reach five per cent within months.HSU NSW Secretary Gerard Hayes says workers are fed up."Health and hospital workers are sick of mealy-mouthed rhetoric. We don't need another politician thanking us for being heroes of the pandemic, we need a pay rise," he said.
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