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Health groups say the nation’s health nation’s health practitioner regulator is taking too long investigator minor complaints, and needs to focus on serious matters.

‘You can’t have both’: Judge blasts doctors for defying strike orders

The doctors’ union has been given less than 24 hours to back down on its planned three-day strike or risk derailing a deal for resigning psychiatrists.

  • Angus Thomson

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A poster notifying patients of ASMOF NSW’s decision to strike from 8-10 April 2025.

‘Unprecedented’: NSW doctors to defy court order and strike for three days

The union wants a 30 per cent pay rise and working conditions that better address worker fatigue.

  • Angus Thomson
Junior doctors and Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation (ASMOF NSW) members at a rally in Newcastle in February.

Doctors ordered to call off three-day strike in latest pay dispute

It is unclear whether hundreds of NSW doctors will defy the demand and walk off the job for three days next week.

  • Angus Thomson
A shake-up is coming for Uber drivers’ pay and conditions.

The major shake-up coming for how Uber drivers are paid

New laws would give gig-economy workers in the transport industry the power to argue for minimum pay and conditions such as penalty rates.

  • Michael McGowan
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
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
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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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