Nurses to consider industrial action
By
MICHAEL RENTOUL
The Nurses’ Union will call for industrial action after its award negotiations broke down on Friday. The union’s national secretary, Ms Steph Breen, said tha talks broke down at the employers’ insistence that a pay rise be linked to reaching a definition of a charge nurse. The union was unlikely to accept an offer to resume talks in two months, before the award expiry date, because the issue was complex and could not be resolved easily. The award covers private sec-
tor nurses. The union is claiming a 6.25 per cent increase. The employers are offering 3 per cent.
The union would now recommend industrial action to planned stop-work meetings, Ms Breen said. The talks were not a suitable forum for reaching a definition, a process which could take six to 12 months, and which entailed "major clawbacks” for charge nurses, she said. The union also wanted improved pay and conditions for nurses at sole-charge hospitals and an agreement on fire safety standards.
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