ACT Nurses discussing strike

Sandman said :

Plenty of the private sector workers have been coping with less than CPI increases the last couple of years. Head on over to the good old US of A and plenty of people have been getting cuts instead of raises.

In Health, it’s the private sector contracted workers who are earning the big bucks. Australia needs to tighten it’s belt, but cutting pay isn’t an option, matching the CPI rate is better.

In the USA and UK and Ireland, the working conditions for public sector workers are pretty atrocious. The USA is private if you want anything resembling decent treatment, and the UK is in meltdown with a fairly similar model to Australia, but with crap pay and conditions.
They train nurses extremely well, but then the nurses emigrate to countries like Australia and NZ, or to the private sector in the USA where they can have a better job and better quality of life. The gaps in the UK service are filled by nurses from the sub-continent, Africa or Eastern Europe, because that for them is a big step up although to a native the pay is extremely poor.
The bottom line is as Australians, we have the choice to choose what standard of treatment we want and how much we pay for it.
Or you could go down the UK route and end up with this :
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/5013633/Deaths-squads-deployed-at-14-NHS-hospitals-over-13000-lost-lives.html

Sandman said :

Plenty of the private sector workers have been coping with less than CPI increases the last couple of years. Head on over to the good old US of A and plenty of people have been getting cuts instead of raises.

So we should model our economy on America’s, where people can work two full time jobs and still not earn a living wage? Sounds like a plan.

Plenty of the private sector workers have been coping with less than CPI increases the last couple of years. Head on over to the good old US of A and plenty of people have been getting cuts instead of raises.

Roundhead89 said :

…And people wonder why Australia has the highest cost of living in the world and why companies are outsourcing to India and China.

I agree. The nerve of these people demanding their pay increases at least in line with inflation.

And of all people – f***ing nurses, some of the least useful members of society. I for one welcome the idea of outsourcing their work to India. Next time I’m in hospital and need a catheter inserted into my urethra, I’m sure some lovely Indian will tell me how to do it over the phone.

Roundhead89 said :

…And people wonder why Australia has the highest cost of living in the world and why companies are outsourcing to India and China.

I presume you are being sarcastic, or you do you really think that public sector workers doing essential work should take a pay cut? Because an increase below CPI is a pay cut.

IP

Roundhead89 said :

…And people wonder why Australia has the highest cost of living in the world and why companies are outsourcing to India and China.

What? 2% too much for you?

Nurses need a far higher increase than 2%

I don’t mind nurses discussing strikes, but personally I would be much more interested in nurses discussing breasts.

…And people wonder why Australia has the highest cost of living in the world and why companies are outsourcing to India and China.

2% ..for some of our hardest working health sector workers … shameful offer..