The NSW branch of the Hospital Services Union today unanimously voted to take industrial action across all NSW hospitals over concern for health workers' safety. At the annual delegates conference, the vote was carried unanimously by the 500 members in ...

New Zealand nurses and midwives have wrapped up industrial action this morning. The strike was held following an online vote by the New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s (NZNO) 30,000-strong membership through which the majority rejected the latest proposed District Health Boards ...

Maternal and child health nurses in Geelong will begin the first stage of industrial action on Wednesday after they rejected an annual leave offer by the city's council. Nurses from 20 maternal and child health centres across the Geelong region ...

Over the past three decades, nurses across the globe have engaged in highly politicised action to protect patient safety and the future of the profession, writes Linda Briskin. Thousands of Victorian nurses are ramping up industrial action with the threat ...

800 RDNS nurses in Victoria begin industrial action over pay. Community care nurses at Australia’s largest provider of in-home care have commenced industrial action in an on-going dispute over pay and conditions. The protected action by the 800 nurses of ...

Nurses continue their industrial action in protracted dispute with the Victorian government. Nurses have defied Federal Court orders to cease all unprotected industrial action, vowing to continue work stoppages at 15 hospitals across the state. Secretary of the Australian Nursing ...

Pressure on the government builds as more beds close across NSW. Nurses have closed more than 400 hospital beds across NSW as their industrial action enters its second week. Another 14 hospitals on Monday voted to join the action to ...

South Australian nurses say work proposals unsafe for staff and patients. South Australian public sector nurses and midwives will start industrial action today in support of an enterprise bargaining claim. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation SA secretary Elizabeth Dabars said ...