About 3000 union members attended Monday’s meeting, where they vented their anger and rejected the pay deal with the Allan government.
Victoria’s nurses and midwives have voted to reject a new pay offer in a shock decision that left their union’s leadership reeling after they had agreed to an in-principle deal with the Allan government.
But Fitzpatrick said nurses and midwives had made it clear they wanted more certainty around the wage increases, which would be affected by a pending Fair Work Commission decision on pay rises for aged care nurses. Asked if the rejection of the deal was unprecedented, Fitzpatrick said she hadn’t seen it happen before or during her time as branch secretary.
The stage one industrial measures that began on May 7 – that include refusing to work overtime and not completing paperwork – will continue after Monday’s vote.
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