Gerard Hayes

After days of tense and tumultuous negotiations, the NSW government has cemented a historic pay deal for paramedics, preventing a potential breakdown of the state’s triple-0 services on January 1. Urgent negotiations between the government…

A major health union has claimed a dropped media story dropped during tense wage negotiations has “derailed” wage negotiations.The Health Services Union (HSU) is meeting with NSW Health representatives at the Industrial Relations Commission…

“Used and let down” paramedics have written to NSW Premier Chris Minns, urging his government to honour an election promise to drastically improve pay and conditions.More than 1900 NSW paramedics have pledged to boycott renewing their…

Paramedic and patient transfer workers will launch a 24-hour strike from 6am on Thursday, as healthcare workers demand faster action on the NSW government’s promise to scrap the wages cap. The unprecedented industrial action will involve…

RAAF aircraft engineers fighting for a pay increase to bring them up to industry averages say they have instead been offered an extra pair of pants. Union officials say Airbus Asia Pacific – which contracts the engineers to the Richmond…

Chronic over-servicing of procedures and treatments, misallocation of spending and an ongoing staff exodus have prompted a major union to call for a NSW Royal Commission into the state government’s spending on healthcare. Despite the NSW…