Nurses and midwives rally outside Moruya hospital for an increase in wages to help with the retention of nurses in NSW and with rising daily living costs.
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00:00with your patients. 11.5% of this 15% is back pay that they have owed us from when they never gave
00:06us our pay rise through COVID. We worked through a global pandemic and they gave us hero case.
00:12So 11.5% of this is back pay which gives us a 3.5% pay rise which is not even in line with the cost
00:18of living. We should be asking for more. This is the bare minimum that they can be giving us
00:23and recognising us for what we've done and the sacrifices we make for the community.
00:27We need ratios for patient safety, not just the big hospitals. Our patients are just as important
00:34and we probably see more and sicker than those big hospitals do in a quicker time frame. We
00:40had 14 ambulances in four hours and I bet you the Sydney hospitals don't do that half the time.
00:45Bullshit. We need our money and we need ratios. Because we won't attract nurses to fill ratios
00:52without a pay rise. Why wouldn't you go to Queensland? Why wouldn't you go to Canberra?
00:56Why wouldn't you go to Victoria? They're all doing better than us. They can build a beautiful
01:00new hospital that no one will be in it. Exactly. Stand up, fight back. What do we want? 15%.
01:10When do we want it? Now. Fix the mess. Stop the stress. When nurses and midwives are under attack
01:17what do we do? Stand up, fight back. 15%!
01:26you