(Thanks Sarah Missen)
Industrial disputes & news - 28 May 2025
#CDC & #Dyson; #Snowy2.0; #NSWAmbulance; #BMS; SA public sector #healthworkers; #BAESystems; QLD #nurses & #midwives; #Qube; #Brimbank City Council; I-MED; #AlliedPinnacle; #AvalonAirport; #XXXX & #Downer
https://disputesreport.substack.com/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-28-may
Thanks Sarah Missen
Industrial disputes & news - 21 May 2025
QLD #nurses & #midwives; #WestWimmera Shire Council; #Kempe; #RiverinaWater; #Mondiale; #Snowy2.0; #AlliedPinnacle; #BMSCranes; #TWU; #CFMEU ACT & Vic #TAFEs
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-21-may?
Queensland #Nurses & #Midwives Union
#EB12 offer from Queensland Health information session Tuesday (6 May) 
3.30pm, register now 
https://bit.ly/4k6AC8o
6.00pm, register now https://bit.ly/42QPmRu
The government threats to #healthworkers backpay if Protected Industrial Action or undertake a formal ballot for Protected Industrial Action. As the government has already seen, we are a powerful force when we act together. 
Sudanese midwives deliver hope amid war and ruin http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKRygY #Sudan #Midwives #HumanRights #Hope #War
(Thanks Sarah Missen)
Industrial Disputes Report 9th April 2025
NSW #doctors; #KeolisDowner; #Boral; #Healthscope; #Downer; #BAE; QLD #nurses & #midwives; #Tomago; #ACL; Vic public sector mental #healthworkers; #Forensicare; Metro Tasmania & WA child protection workers
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-9-april?
In the remote Amazon, midwives care for women stranded by drought
Midwife Tabita dos Santos Moraes, 51, touches the belly of Mayleane Melo, 22, to monitor the baby's position, at the Deus e Pai community in Tefe, Amazonas state, Brazil, October 24, 2024. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/brazil-amazon-midwives/
@ProPublica I believe the oath was: do no harm. You can have illegal abortion clinics, but you can't come up with illegal care clinics? What's wrong here. We have midwives! For centuries women assisted women in birth! Now it is a male thing and they don't know how to act! Having given birth myself, I would and could assist any woman drawing from experience. I am sure that the sepsis rate would go down! This failure to act is a ridiculous failure of mindset sub combing to tyranny. #midwives
NO ROOM FOR EMERGENCY
San Francisco’s Biggest Hospital System: “ Don’t Talk About Palestine “
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/19/ucsf-medical-palestine-speech/
Healthcare workers of San Francisco Jan. 14, 2024, at the March for Gaza.
A “watermelon” Palestine Solidarity badge.
A die in at the Town Hall
United Workers #Union members at #Woolworths Warehouse sites handling liquor in Victoria, NSW and Queensland are on indefinite #strike
We hear from a #CFMEU organiser who was at the site of a death of a member at a Victorian Wind Farm recently.
We go to the #healthworkers rally for #Nurses and #Midwives that stopped #Sydney CBD on November 13th.
Wherever you are, whatever you do there is a union for you !
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/uwu-warehouse-strikes-cfmeu-death-nsw-nurses-out-respect
ANMF Victoria - St Vincents’ Private
#Nurses and #midwives from #StVincentsPrivate hospitals in #Fitzroy, #EastMelbourne, #Werribee and #Kew are holding a #stopwork meeting and community rally on Thursday (28/11) from 12:45pm. #ANMF members were due to participate in an online meeting on Tuesday (26/11) to prepare for the stop work and discuss a revised offer received from St Vincents. The revised offer adds 6 items; does revise the wage offer down and does not address staffing and ratios.
(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) One of the Midwives' homes, Spruce St. Location: Providence, Rhode Island.
#Midwives #RhodeIsland #CasadelasMadres #America #Photography #LewisHine #ChildLabour #ChildLabor
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NSW nurses and midwives are lowest paid in Australia, yet live and work in the most expensive state.
https://www.nswnma.asn.au/campaigns/ratios4nsw/
#costoflivingcrisis
#labormovement #healthworkers #nurses #midwives #organize #solidarity #unions
How healthcare became official and a luxury – something that the rich elite had recourse to, and which everyone else had to do without: https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/on-medieval-healthcare-and-american-barbarism/
#midwives #monks #medieval #healthcare #Janega @DrEleanorJanega #history #sociology @ethics @sociology @socialpsych #medicine #physicians #pandemic #ModernTimes #modernity #modern #MiddleAges #Europe
Obstetric Phantom, 18th century. The wood and leather model was used to teach medical students, and possibly midwives, about childbirth. It came from the Hospital del Ceppo in Pistoia, near Florence, founded in 1277.
Photo: Science Museum, London.
According to sources, #midwives are being asked by some trusts to work as adult #nurses during this flu season. This is not allowed. Midwives and nurses have different qualifications unless dual qualified. A midwife could act as a ward helper but not as a nurse - a midwife who acts as a nurse at the behest of their trust would probably lose their pin for practicing without qualifications. 40 k nurses short and counting… #NursingCrisis
This reminds me of a book chapter by #historian Kristen Burnett, "Obscured Obstetrics: Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada" (2011) that my students always love. It describes the critical role #Indigenous #midwives played in delivering settler babies in 19th- and early 20th-century #Canada.
#History #histodons #CdnHist #histmed #medhist #MedicalHistory @histodons
Gutted #RCM didn’t get the min 50% turnout for industrial action -which was because of the equally important postal strikes. out of those that did get returned in time, 9 out of every 10 voted for industrial action. #midwives stand with #Nurses #rail workers and #postal workers. The RCM is apparently looking into what can be done. I’m travelling today, I know the travel will be awful -but I support the strikes. So I don’t care how bad it is. Workers are more important than my inconvenience.
We were again really lucky - we got pregnant quickly, had a very smooth pregnancy, and a labour with minimal interventions and easy recovery. I want to highlight here that the #MaternityServices and #midwives we dealt with in #NHSLothian were superb. Couldn't fault them, though they were clearly overworked and underfunded. This is another representation of my privilege I know, in that I am very capable of navigating NHS systems, but it deserves to be said they were wonderful
