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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An update on our Work Value cases
- December 9, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
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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.
Australian women work for free until end of 2024
- November 19, 2024
- Category: Justice & Action, Research
- / Tag: Action, All Nurses And Midwives, Campaign, Gender pay gap
Today marks the start of the period when Australian women effectively turn up at their jobs and work for ‘free’ for the rest of the year because of the gender pay gap. According to latest
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
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
Nurses and midwives have declared the climate crisis a health crisis with an immediate call to action this Global Climate Change Week (14-18 October). The Planetary Health Collaborative for Nurses and Midwives declaration highlights the
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