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The Health Workers Union has returned to democratic control after the HWU Unity Team swept the Branch election, winning every elected position across the union. Jake McGuinness has been elected Secretary of the Health Services Union Victoria No.1 Branch (HWU), with Gavin Sharpe elected Assistant Secretary. At 27, Mr McGuinness is the youngest Victorian State Secretary

Health workers across Victoria have emphatically endorsed their new Enterprise Agreement, with 93.5 per cent voting in favour of the deal, and more than 22,000 workers taking part. A total of 20,832 healthcare workers voted “Yes” to the Agreement, with fifteen health services returning a unanimous 100 per cent endorsement. The successful vote comes at

The Victorian Government has made a welcome above-inflation pay offer in a move to end the long-running dispute with healthcare workers. After 15 months of negotiations and below-inflation wages offers, the HWU has now been sent a proposed wages deal it will be proud to recommend to members. The deal proposes a 12% increase over two-and-a-half

Underpaid healthcare workers are letterboxing voters in Footscay ahead of a planned mass rally at the new Footscray Hospital this week. About 10,000 workers from across Victoria will walk of the job for the third time tomorrow (Wednesday), furious over the State Government’s unwillingness to end the festering pay dispute. The day-long strike will mean

Healthcare workers will walk off the job today (Tuesday), c1ausing mass disruption across the public health system, because of the Victorian Government’s failure to strike a deal. More than 10,000 workers from more than 80 healthcare services — including all of Melbourne’s major public hospitals — will take part in the strike. Participating workers include

Victorian healthcare workers will stop supporting elective surgery procedures from Wednesday, in the latest escalation of a long-running dispute with the Victorian Government. The new bans will also see workers close one in every four hospital beds, cease cleaning of non-clinical areas including offices, staff rooms and cafeterias, and suspend the training and onboarding of

Victorian healthcare workers are going on strike today in an escalation of a long-running dispute with the state government over pay and workloads. The walkout will impact more than 80 public health services across the state, and will likely force to the cancellation of about 1,000 non-critical elective surgery procedures. Healthcare workers, represented by the

Healthcare workers will appear in the Fair Work Commission in Melbourne today seeking to force Eastern Health to release the secret modelling behind the planned privatisation of its workforce. Eastern Health is preparing to push its entire healthcare support workforce into the employment of a multinational labour-hire firm. The move would affect more than 300 workers performing