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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.
- by Kate Aubusson and Angus Thomson
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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.
- by Jordan Baker and Tom Rabe
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.
- by Lucy Carroll and Angus Thompson
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.
- by Angus Thompson and Tom Rabe
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.
- by Tom Rabe and Alexandra Smith
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Industrial relations
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.
- by Angus Thompson
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Wage growth
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.
- by Robert Carling
‘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.
- by Amelia McGuire
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.
- by Lucy Carroll and Lucy Cormack
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”.
- by Mary Ward
‘At breaking point’: NSW paramedics to strike over 1.5 per cent pay offer
Health Services Union paramedics will go on strike on June 10 for 24 hours in response to the pay offer, only attending the most urgent, life threatening emergencies.
- by Daniella White
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