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Released Friday 27 September 2024 After a lot of fanfare and involvement from the Minister for Health during the extraordinarily long development of the WA Health Workforce Strategy, WA Health has quietly released the final strategy document online yesterday and notified staff. The Minister’s foreword itself focuses on the need for collective action to ensure a…
Released Thursday 19 September 2024 HSUWA-members have further escalated their industrial action this week, after the State Government has continually failed to deliver the meaningful reform to the pay and conditions needed to deal with the current crisis attracting and retaining experienced public health professionals in WA. Inefficient wage levels and a lack of modern…
Released 13 September 2024 Union members are fed up with the company’s disrespect to its own workforce. After months and months of negotiations, despite existing low pay and rising cost of living pressures for staff, the company has failed to put forward an adequate pay offer to their employees. Union members then determined, by ballot,…
Released 11 September 2024 ACTU Secretary Sally McManus joined HSUWA Pharmacy members at QEII for the Pharmacy department’s first Stop Work meeting held this morning, a major escalation in HSUWA’s campaign for a fair offer from WA Health after the Second Offer was unanimously rejected by the HSUWA Committee of Management. Hospital Pharmacists are significant…
Released Tuesday 10 September 2024 WA Health have ignored the overwhelming evidence gathered in its own Independent Review of Career Pathways for Health Professionals in WA Public Health by failing to commit to implement modern career pathways for over 7,000 Allied Health Professionals in the unanimously rejected Second Offer. HSUWA members who have dedicated their…
Released Friday 6 September 2024 Health Services Union of Western Australia members who work at Australian Clinical Labs, including Phlebotomists, Scientists, Laboratory Technicians and Assistants, Couriers and Administrative staff, will walk off the job for four hours on Thursday 12 September 2024. Union members are fed up with the company’s disrespect to its own workforce….
Released Thursday 5 September 2024 The Second Offer made by the Department of Health on 20 August 2024 has now been unanimously rejected by the HSUWA Committee of Management. The departments will meet this week to finalise arrangements for further action to be taken in the coming weeks. While the Second Offer offered some improvements…
RELEASED Wednesday 21 August 2024 HSUWA members have walked out and joined other public sector workers to Stand Up! for higher wages, better conditions and sustainable career priorities at the Perth Cultural Centre today. The message from HSUWA members is clear – the State Government needs to stop its current approach of expensive, short sighted…
Friday 9 August 2024 Comments attributed to Naomi McCrae, HSUWA Secretary: “HSUWA welcomes the Health Minister’s announcement to expand the role of Community Pharmacists to deliver care to more Western Australians by treating a range of acute specific conditions. “HSUWA also notes the same expanded role for hospital pharmacists has potential to improve patient care…
RELEASED 2 AUGUST 2024 Western Australia’s critical public health workforce is standing up for higher wages and better conditions, presenting a petition to the Acting Premier last week with 2221 signatures from HSUWA members working in public health services across Western Australia. The petition calls on the Premier to immediately intervene in the wages process…
RELEASED 29 MAY 2024 HSUWA Members, including Allied Health Professionals, Technicians, Assistants and Clerks from Perth Children’s Hospital, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and PathWest will rally to Stand Up! for better pay and conditions at a Stop Work Meeting today. After a mass meeting of union members on 1 May at Fiona Stanley Hospital, this…
Anaesthetic Technicians are calling on the State Government to deliver pay equity and sensible, longoverdue improvements to their career structure to retain highly skilled and experienced technicians inpublic health. The budget announcement today of investment in public health services is very welcome. However,without any investment directed at supporting and retaining the workforce, there won’t be…
RELEASED 1 MAY 2024 HSUWA Members, including Allied Health Professionals, Technicians, Assistants and Clerksfrom Fiona Stanley Hospital, will congregate to Stand Up! for better pay and conditions at aMass Member Meeting on Wednesday, 1 May 2024. The meeting comes as the State Government and Department of Health have failed to present anOffer to the largest…
HSUWA welcomes the announcement by the WA Health Minister that the State Government will fund the establishment of four community based Acute Care and Response Teams (ACRT Teams) to support WA children and adolescents who are seriously unwell. HSUWA Members working as Clinical Psychologists, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and administrative staff with Child and Adolescent Mental…
HSUWA Members have advocated for nearly three years for urgent action to improve services for children who need to access public mental health services. The Union announced that if funding for more staff and services are not committed by December, its Members working as Clinical Psychologists, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and in Clerical roles with…
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