WE SUPPORT NSW NURSES & MIDWIVES

Nurses' Professional Association of NSW Secretary, Anita Scutts, expresses support for NSW nurses and midwives.

Our healthcare heroes have been overworked and undervalued for long enough. Now, they are being ignored by the NSW government. This government could not have done without nurses during COVID.

We support the NSW nurses and midwives who have been forced onto the streets to voice their concerns for safe staffing ratios and for better pay and conditions at a time when inflation has slammed their take home pay.

Shift after shift, day and night, nurses have cared for the people of NSW. They have endured mismanagement, short staffing, and on-going requests for overtime. Yet now, nurses and midwives cannot even get a pay rise that is indexed to inflation.
“It is time that the NSW government scrapped the cap on public healthcare workers’ wages, and it is time nurses and midwives got a fair go,” said Nurses' Professional Association of NSW Secretary Anita Scutts.

Our members, the hard-working nurses and midwives of NSW, have been overworked and undervalued by the government and this cannot go on. The Nurses' Professional Association of NSW keeps its’ costs to members low to help nurses and midwives, likewise the government must understand the impact inflation is having on mortgages, electricity, groceries and our children’s education.

We call for the NSW government to come to the bargaining table with a genuine desire to address nurses and midwives needs for safe staffing ratios and improved working conditions.