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Psychiatrists in the NSW public mental health system are threatening to resign amid an ongoing pay dispute with the state government.

Doctors threaten mass resignation amid worsening crisis

Psychiatrists have warned that chronic understaffing of the public mental health system is risking patient safety as they fight for a 30 per cent pay rise.

  • Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson

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Chris Minns steered Labor to a thumping victory in NSW promising to ease cost of living while opposing Liberal projects like subsidised savings accounts for children.

Now deliver on your promises, unions tell newly elected Labor

Unions want Labor to deliver on its pre-election promises – including its pledge to scrap the wage cap – by beginning negotiations over pay and conditions.

  • Jordan Baker and Tom Rabe
Teachers went on strike for higher pay and better conditions earlier this year.

NSW teachers delivered real wage cut as inflation expected to hit 8 per cent

The NSW Industrial Relations Commission handed teachers a 6 per cent pay rise over two years, with headline inflation currently running at 7.3 per cent.

  • Lucy Carroll and Angus Thompson
Sally McManus, Secretary of the ACTU, wants a discussion about casuals receiving sick pay.

Union head and Liberal minister agree umpire powerless to solve rail dispute

In a speech to the National Press Club that prompted an outcry from major employer groups, Sally McManus said the movement’s priority was to ensure permanent workers mischaracterised as casuals were receiving their proper entitlements.

  • Angus Thompson and Tom Rabe
An artist's impression of the new trains that are being built in South Korea.

NSW government attacks rail unions over mothballed $2b train fleet

A new inter-city fleet that unions say is unsafe is sitting in sheds unused at a cost of $30 million a month, Treasurer Matt Kean says.

  • Tom Rabe and Alexandra Smith
A government worker who shared an image of former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian with a Hitler moustache has been compensated for being harshly dismissed.

Sacked worker paid out after sharing image of Berejiklian with Hitler moustache

A tribunal has found the dismissal of a government worker who attended an anti-lockdown rally and shared an image of the former NSW premier with a Hitler moustache was justified but harsh.

  • Angus Thompson
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Nurses rally for better pay and conditions on February 15.

Perrottet needs a hard-headed approach to wages, even for those on the COVID-19 front line

Workers like nurses have won the support and sympathy of the community at large during the pandemic. But warm feelings cannot be the guiding force behind the government’s pay policy.

  • Robert Carling
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‘It’s no wonder so many are walking off the job’: Why NSW nurses have had enough

Thousands of nurses across NSW marched through Macquarie Street in Sydney’s CBD to demand the implementation of nurse-to-patient ratios across the state’s hospitals.

  • Amelia McGuire
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Thousands of nurses to defy eleventh-hour order to halt strike

Thousands of nurses across NSW plan to stage a mass walk out on Tuesday, defying a last-minute order from the NSW Industrial Relations Commission.

  • Lucy Carroll and Lucy Cormack
Premier Gladys Berejiklian

Dispute over COVID ward staffing as hospitals brace for worst month

The Premier has stressed the plan for hospitals to survive the coming months depended on the system being “technically overwhelmed in some ways”.

  • Mary Ward

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