Aged care workers strike Australia

2022 - 5 - 10

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Aged care workers strike in Qld, WA (7NEWS.com.au)

Aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia are striking as part of a union push to improve pay and staffing in aged care homes.

“I understand why aged care workers are walking out. Being starved to death,” he told the Seven Network. You can’t do it,” she said.. You can’t take a break. Thousands of aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia will walk off the job, striking for better pay and staffing in aged care facilities. “All this, while aged care workers earn some of the lowest wages in Australia.”

Thousands of aged care workers to strike in two states (Sky News Australia)

An estimated 10,000 employees in the sector who work across five major providers in Western Australia and Queensland will strike on Tuesday. They include Regi, ...

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Thousands of aged care workers walking off the job (9News)

Thousands of aged care workers across two states will today take unprecedented strike action, as anger over...

Rallies will be held in the Brisbane and Perth CBDs at 1pm. Workers are calling for extra staffing levels in facilities across the country, and a wage increase. Workers from eight major aged care providers in Queensland and Western Australia will walk off the job at 11.30am for five hours.

Aged Care Workers Strike In Queensland & WA Over Inadequate ... (Triple M)

The Australian Workers Union (AWU) says that aged care workers have had enough, with improved staffing levels and better pay urgently needed. AWU Aged Care ...

"Aged care workers report aged care residents are frustrated, upset and humiliated as they wait too long to be showered, too long for soiled pads to be changed and too long, sometimes, even to be fed," she said in a statement. AWU Aged Care Director Caroline Smith said there is a crisis in aged care, with the low number of staff now impacting the care of patients and residents. Listen to Australia Today's Steve Price talk with the Australian Workers Union aged care director Caroline Smith on the strike action

Aged care workers strike in Qld and WA (The West Australian)

Aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia have launched industrial action as part of a union push to improve pay and staffing in aged care ...

"I understand why aged care workers are walking out. Being starved to death," he told the Seven Network. You can't do it," she said.. It's been horrific," she told ABC TV. You can't take a break. "All this, while aged care workers earn some of the lowest wages in Australia."

SA aged care workers use day off to rally for better work conditions ... (ABC News)

Hundreds of aged care workers in Queensland and Western Australia walk off the job in a stand for better pay and work conditions, but South Australian aged ...

"What aged care workers face today is a situation that just can't continue. "The aged care workers who are standing behind me are taking strike action, really as a last straw. People are trusting us with their parents and we want to give them the care they deserve," she said. A similar number of protesters gathered at the cultural centre in the Perth suburb of Northbridge to call for better pay and conditions for aged care workers. "Our pay needs to increase by at least 30 per cent. They have been fighting for years and years and years to get the issues in aged care addressed," Ms O'Neil said.