AUSTRALIAN CLINICAL LAB MEMBERS TAKE 4 HOUR STOP WORK
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AUSTRALIAN CLINICAL LAB MEMBERS TAKE 4 HOUR STOP WORK

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,…

AUSTRALIAN CLINICAL LABS – UNION MEMBERS TAKE 4 HOUR STOP WORK ACTION 
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AUSTRALIAN CLINICAL LABS – UNION MEMBERS TAKE 4 HOUR STOP WORK ACTION 

 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….

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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…

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Lifeblood Members Dig in During Tough Negotiations

Lifeblood (a division of the Australian Red Cross Society) is attempting to erode the earnings and hard-fought conditions of WA employees. HSUWA Members have had 10 negotiation meetings to progress a replacement enterprise Agreement in WA however the company is seeking to combine separate state-based Agreements (for WA, SA, VIC and TAS) into a new “SouthWest” Agreement. Instead of using the process to…

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Member Story – The Price of Human Connection

HSUWA Member Trisha is the friendly, smiling face who greets patients as they walk through the door of a small suburban pathology clinic south of Perth. Trisha is a very experienced and skilled Phlebotomist working with Australian Clinical Laboratories (Clinical Labs) in WA. Clinical Labs, along with Western Diagnostic Pathology and Clinipath, make up the…

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