The union will calculate the results of the survey by lunchtime.
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The Minister of Health has asked us to cancel the strike. That’s your decision and there’s an online poll about your iFolio now where you can give your opinion because the media, the Minister of Health and the Prime Minister of Australia want to know by lunchtime tomorrow.
Reeh said the nurses were likely to continue working because they were upset about the government’s treatment of them.
At a work stoppage meeting last week, nurses voted to increase their wage demands from 5 percent annually to 10 percent with a $4,500 cost of living payment.
The 10 per cent figure was described as unlikely even by union chief executive Mark Olson, but Rhee said it wasn’t even mentioned at the meeting because the government was adamant it wouldn’t change its current offer.
Reh said she asked the minister if the nurses could get the $3,000 for the cost of living paid now as a goodwill gesture.
“She said no, you’ll only get that if you accept the offer,” she said.
Earlier today, Prime Minister Mark McGowan urged the union to back off any industrial strike.
“There is no need for industrial work,” he said. “We have a solution.”
Sanderson said the government has given the ANF what it wants — an agreement in principle on nurse-patient ratios.
“Last week, the ANF said they don’t need a full pedigree model, they just want an agreement in principle.”
After banning overtime, the ANF’s plan eventually includes closing one in five beds and a day off work in hospitals.
Originally published at Melbourne News Vine
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