Over a year since negotiations began, the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association has accepted a four per cent pay rise, in a narrow members’ vote. It has left over 40 per cent of nurses disappointed.
“We remain determined to pressure the government because more needs to be done to retain nurses in the public sector,” Warren NSWNMA branch secretary and local RN Sarah Webb said.
Despite being happy for the aged care sector in securing their pay rise of 15 per cent, Ms Webb fears what the disparity in pay rises might mean for an already understaffed region…