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Queensland #Nurses & #Midwives Union

#EB12 offer from Queensland Health information session Tuesday (6 May)
1️⃣ 3.30pm, register now 👉 bit.ly/4k6AC8o

2️⃣ 6.00pm, register now 👉 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. 💪

#LaborMovement #organize #solidarity
#Unions #UnionStrong

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@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

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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.

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

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.

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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