Hospital security guards hamstrung by inadequate laws: Union

Daily Telegraph, 9 July 2022 Security guards say they are still being treated like punching bags and can’t proactively take down aggressive patients…

Lack of government ‘expertise’ for industrial relations

Sky News, 1 July 2022 NSW Health Services Union Secretary Gerard Hayes says they would “attack Labor” as they would attack the Liberal…

Westmead Hospital cleaners, HSU members to go on strike

Daily Telegraph Newslocal Parramatta, 29 June 2022 Industrial action continues to deepen, with scores of cleaners at a major NSW hospital poised to…

‘Advice from Putin’: Union boss slams new fines for industrial action

The Daily Telegraph, 23 June 2022 A bid to increase illegal strike action fines has seen union bosses blast Dominic Perrottet, going as…

NSW Budget: 10k health staff to be hired in multi-billion dollar recruitment drive

The Daily Telegraph, 6 June 2022 This month’s state budget will set aside a massive $4.5 billion for a national record-breaking health worker…

Unprecedented $4.5 billion boost for NSW hospitals, health services

Sydney Morning Herald, 6 June 2022 The Perrottet government will recruit more than 10,000 nurses, doctors and other staff to the state’s hospitals…

Inquiry condemns NSW Health as hospital staff live with a ‘culture of fear’

Sydney Morning Herald, 6 May 2022 The behaviour of NSW Health and its local health district bureaucracies has been savaged in a damning…

Sydney hospital reviews ambulance death after man’s cardiac arrest treated in car park

Sydney Morning Herald, 2 May 2022 A major Sydney hospital is reviewing the circumstances of the death of a man who died on…