Despite the advantageous, the union says they are not giving up on preventing for a 5 per cent wage enhance because the state authorities stays agency on a decrease three per cent rise.
”Fining the ANF does nothing to improve the workloads and conditions that nurses and midwives in WA are undertaking every day,” ANF State Secretary Janet Reah stated.
MP Shane Love stated the protests have been a response to the federal government ignoring the Nurses Union.
“What we saw was frustration from the nurses caused by the government not wanting to deal with them in good faith,” Love stated.
Reah was fined $10,00 personally in relation to the protest.
“I don’t know what they think I’m being paid, but I don’t have 10-grand lying around,” she stated.
Reah says the Nurse’s union doesn’t wish to defy the state’s industrial watchdog and would quite work with them to barter the rise.
“We’re changing tact slightly and looking at clauses within the EBA that we can alter to get that monetary figure we need for the nurses and midwives.”
ANF stated they didn’t have any extra strikes deliberate within the close to future.
Source: www.9news.com.au
