Doctors ordered to cancel the action proposed in remuneration dispute
Similarly to last year’s nursing and osterer strikes, the essential services would be maintained, but the procedures, clinics and elective events should be canceled or postponed, the doctor said.
A post on social media asmof NSW shows the doctors who had voted to hit.
NSW Health takes about 16,000 full -time equivalent doctors. Asmof said he has more than 9000 members.
An average annual salary of $ 222,017 is paid to the doctors of the public hospital, according to the data of the NSW health workforce for last financial year.
Asmof asks for a salary increase of up to 30 % to combine wages in other states. Other requests include safe working hours to protect the safety of patients and staff, penalties for non -sociable working hours and left it rights “that promote the balance between work and private life and effort management”.
The union is also pressure on the government to permanently use more doctors and limit fixed -term contracts to “only short -term needs”.
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The cost of locums Medici has doubled in the last five years and NSW Health spends $ 270 million every year in short -term doctors (about 1.5 percent of the total wage bill).
The threatened strike follows more than a year of negotiations and is the latest industrial controversy that affects the state health system since Prime Minister Chris Minns raised the limit of wages in 2023.
Paramedics won a 25 % Bump In 2023 after threatening to withdraw their registration on the eve of New Year’s Eve, while the nurses will not yet ensure an improved payment offer despite Three important state shots last year.
