Negotiations between the NSW Nursing and Midwife Association and the NSW Ministry of Health began in May 2024. Discussions broke down and sparked the first protests in July 2024, after the government
offered a 10.5% increase to pay over three years for workers earning 2008 level wages.
offered a 10.5% increase to pay over three years for workers earning 2008 level wages.
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00:00Two, three, four, we need more in twenty-four.
00:04Twenty-one, it means the rest.
00:06It's time to pay us what we're worth.
00:08And we're ready to stand up and fight for it and we're not falling away.
00:12Continue with the broken system that underpays and undervalues our health care workers.
00:16No.
00:17We can take decisive action.
00:31What do we want?
00:33Fifteen percent.
00:42This economy, we're drowning, so it's going to save us.
00:46So it's time for us to save ourselves.
00:48We need to demonstrate to this government that we are not going to go away
00:52and that we demand to be valued and that we mean business.
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