Urgent plans for South Australian aged care workers to be banned from aged care facilities until they are vaccinated is a case of workers being punished for the bungled aged care vaccination rollout,…
Federal Government attempts to shift the blame for the failed aged care vaccination program on to aged care workers are nothing short of despicable, United Workers Union Aged Care Director Carolyn Smith said…
The current Melbourne outbreak costing frontline workers is linked to a quarantine leak from Adelaide’s Playford medi-hotel earlier this month.
Quotes attributable to Lyndal Ryan, United Workers Union Director of Property Services:
“The…
The Morrison Government’s attempt to show a commitment to women in this Budget ultimately does not reach the women it’s supposed to benefit, the United Workers Union said today.
“If the Coalition was…
The Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work report on aged care funding reveals once again the terrible human cost paid for years of neglect, Carolyn Smith, Aged Care Director of United Workers Union,…
MEDIA ALERT
WHEN: TODAY 2 pm Friday 7 May 2021
WHERE: United Workers Union office – 38 Woods Street, Darwin (Level 2)
WHAT: St John Ambulance paramedics, emergency medical dispatchers and patient transport officers expose…
Industrial action by essential health workers fighting against privatisation of vital health services will continue after a failed bid by the Marshall Liberal Government to block the workers.
“The Marshall Liberal Government has monumentally…
SA Treasurer Rob Lucas’s refusal yesterday to rule out further privatisation of health services and job cuts in hospitals has shocked workers who help care for South Australia’s ill, elderly and most vulnerable.
Mr…
Essential health workers will press their case today for state-wide industrial action to raise their concerns about privatisation and job cuts.
The workers and their union will attend a tribunal hearing after a last-ditch…
MEDIA ALERT
WHEN: TODAY 1pm Thursday 1 April 2021
WHERE: McCormick Foods, Cnr Fairbank Rd and Brady Ave, Clayton South
WHAT: Shadow Education Minister and Shadow Minister for Women Tanya Plibersek, ACTU President Michele O’Neil…
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE
WHAT: Aged care nurses and carers media conference.
When: 10.30am, Tuesday 16 March, 2021.
Where: Senate Courtyard, Parliament House, Canberra.
A DELEGATION of aged care workers from across Australia will converge on Parliament House,…
Aged care workers have rejected central recommendations of the Aged Care Royal Commission, saying they do not go far enough or quickly enough to provide the care and safety older Australians need.
In a…