Since taking office in March 2011, Barry O’Farrell and his Government have made a number of cuts to funding, jobs, workers’ rights and services. Here is an overview of what the workers of NSW have endured thus far. Attacks on Workers’ Rights Taken Control of IRC and Frozen Wages – The Government passed the Industrial […]
Brett Holmes, General Secretary, NSWNA PUBLIC sector unions have warned of a wave of campaigns to oppose the O’Farrell government’s latest changes to industrial relations laws, likely to be introduced to Parliament this week. The changes, announced a fortnight ago in the wake of a damning report into inefficiencies in the public service, include an […]
Organising for Safe Patient Care was the theme of this year’s annual conference attended by over 400 delegates, representing NSWNA members at workplaces across NSW. Two days of evocative presentations and lively discussion examined how we can build on the major achievements of the nurse-to-patient ratios campaign; and how we can prepare ourselves and […]
An ad that was in page 17 of The Daily Telegraph sends a strong message to the O’Farrell Government that they do not have the right to remove the independence of the NSW Industrial Relations Commission. The reality is the O’Farrell Government’s IR proposals are nothing but an attack on the rights at work […]
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