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Negotiating Fairer Pay and Conditions With Private Employers
HSUWA Members have joined together in workplaces across WA to negotiate fairer pay and conditions with their employers. Currently, the Union has negotiated Agreements with over 40 private companies, with 7 of those currently in active negotiations. Bargaining to ensure Members maintain and improve conditions is supported by Members who are actively involved in the…
OVER 500 HSUWA MEMBERS RALLY FOR HIGHER WAGES AND BETTER CONDITIONS
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…
International Women’s Day – Celebrating HSUWA Women
This International Women’s Day (IWD) HSUWA celebrates the women who have devoted their professional lives to the healthcare of Western Australians. This year’s IWD theme is ‘Accelerate Action’ and we know nobody accelerates action like HSUWA Members! Did you know that according to data from the World Economic Forum at the current rate of progress,…
MEMBER WIN! ACL Staff to be Paid for Pre-start Duties
Members at Clinical Laboratories stand up for their rights to be paid for duties required by the employer. Members at Clinical Laboratories (ACL) raised concerns that the company required staff to perform 15 minutes of pre-start duties at hospital locations. Consequently, a union claim item in bargaining for a new Union Agreement requires that the company…
HSUWA Members Commit to Fighting on Amidst Historic Wins in Aged Care
As many Members will be aware, the HSU ran the successful Change Aged Care campaign to lobby the Federal Government to better fund Aged Care. While reform is underway following the Royal Commission process, importantly in 2020, the HSU also lodged a work value case in the Fair Work Commission arguing the pay rates in the residential aged care sector were too low and…
HSUWA RESPONSE TO RELEASE OF THE WA HEALTH WORKFORCE STRATEGY 2034
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…