Off the back of revelations about poor working conditions, members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) Canterbury Hospital branch, said they were fed up feeling like the poor cousins and reiterated calls for safe nurse-to-patient ratios.
NSWNMA Assistant General Secretary Judith Kiejda said nurses and midwives wanted to offer the best possible care to their patients with safe staffing, but yet again they were being ignored.
“The NSW Government needs to take a proper look at the workloads and conditions that nurses and midwives are struggling with. It’s no wonder they are fatigued and feel unsupported,” she said
“We call on the NSW Government to value nurses and midwives by delivering shift-by-shift ratios, improved conditions and fair pay, not a pitiful one per cent offer.”
The protest comes only weeks after State MP for Bankstown, Tania Mihailuk, met with representatives from the Health Services Union at Bankstown-Lidcombe hospital, to discuss their concerns about understaffing, salary packaging and staff parking fees.
“Our local healthcare workers have been essential in keeping our community safe both throughout the pandemic and throughout the everyday,” she said.
“It is time they were granted the working conditions that they deserve.”
