Justice & Action
Informing on the latest industrial rights and action, nursing and midwifery’s collective force and social justice issues relevant to health
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Climate crisis is a health crisis: Nurses and midwives call for action
- October 15, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: Action, All Nurses And Midwives, Climate Change
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Financial stress and your mental health
- November 7, 2024
- Category: Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
A higher cost of living has increased financial hardship for many Australians. Since 2020, interest rates, mortgages and inflation have risen fast, but real wages have gone down [1]. Despite low unemployment, higher living costs are affecting our living standards.
Female nurses face significant gender pay gap
- November 8, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Gender inequality
Female nurses in Australia face a pay gap of up to 13%, with male nurses promoted faster, and in more executive roles despite women making up nearly 90% of the nursing workforce. Edith Cowan University
Queensland unions push for equal paid parental leave
- October 17, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The Queensland Police Union has this week partnered with the Queensland Council of Unions in a joint campaign pushing for equal paid parental leave across the state public sector. The campaign is calling for commitments
Targeting unnecessary use of medical consumables
- October 10, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Designing material waste out of our clinical workflow improves efficiency while reducing the environmental and financial cost of healthcare without compromising patient outcomes. This case study demonstrates how our knowledge on the ward can target
What a time to be an ANMF member as we celebrate our proud 100-year history
- October 8, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
From humble beginnings of some 700 members over a century ago, we now mark a national membership of over 326,000, making us the largest union in the country. This year is especially important as we
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