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Nurses turn out across Queensland to protest against the Howard Government's IR laws
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Labour Day 2006
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Nurses voice their concerns
 Mareeba Midwife and QNU
Councillor Sandra Eales
says about:
Threats to nursing
classification structures:
“It took a long hard fight
to get our current nursing
career structure–to remove
it threatens quality of care and may
mean hospitals can substitute skilled
nurses with less experienced or
qualified staff.
Losing the hard-won recognition of
nursing as a skilled profession is
something I cannot accept”
Reducing access to unions:
Without proper access to unions
many nurses may feel themselves without
a voice. That would send us back decades.”
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 Brisbane Community mental health
RN and ANF Councillor Steve Bone
says about community awareness:
“Nurses should talk to one another
about these changes, and there are
courses at the union they can attend
to find out more, but talking to one
another, to their social networks—it’s
a great one for barbecues—they can raise community
awareness.
“People need to know the changes proposed
are not only a backward step for nurses: they
are a backward step for Australia.”
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 Regional EN in aged care and QNU member Sue Pearman says about:
Reducing the minimum wage:
“I’m concerned that many aged care nurses are reliant on increases in the minimum wage under their awards–without regular reviews of the minimum wage, many will find their pay packets frozen, or even reduced.
Penalty rates: “Nurses in aged care are worried that if penalty rates are lost it will make it harder to recruit staff to work weekends or shifts.
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