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Nursing union accepts pay deal after months of deadlock

WA's nursing union has accepted a three per cent pay rise but says its 40,000 members remain the lowest paid in the country.

AAP · Jan 5, 2024

WA nurses union fined $350,000 over strike for pay rise

The WA Industrial Relations Commission has fined the nurses' union $350,000 over a state strike during which thousands of health workers took to the street.

AAP · May 26, 2023

Australian Nursing Federation's WA branch fined $350,000 over strike outside state parliament

WA's Australian Nursing Federation is fined $350,000 for a strike outside state parliament last year that attracted thousands of nurses at the height of a bitter dispute over pay and conditions.

ABC News · May 26, 2023

Australian Nursing Federation's WA branch compared to Hitler, Karl Marx at Industrial Relations Commission hearing

The Industrial Relations Commission's registrar alleges the ANF's WA branch breached its orders 3,590 times, which the union says could see it fined more than $27 million.

ABC News · Apr 11, 2023

Aishwarya Aswath's parents call for WA Health Department shake-up over daughter's death

The father of a girl who died of sepsis after waiting almost two hours to be admitted to a Perth hospital calls for clarification of the coroner's report on her death, and a new WA Health Department head.

ABC News · Feb 27, 2023

WA nurses union avoids deregistration, says no plans for further strikes in bitter pay dispute

The Australian Nursing Federation says a threat to deregister the union in WA will not be carried out after it met with the state's Industrial Relations Commission, adding it has no plans for further strikes.

ABC News · Dec 1, 2022

Australian Medical Association slams Industrial Relations Commission over nurses union threat

The head of the peak medical organisation representing doctors in WA describes a threat to deregister the Australian Nursing Federation as "Thatcher-like".

ABC News · Nov 29, 2022

Western Australian nurses and midwives strike after rejecting pay and conditions offer

Nurses and midwives have walked off the job, after their union rejected the government's latest pay and conditions offer.

ABC News · Nov 25, 2022

WA nurses ordered to call off strike after fresh Industrial Relations Commission hearing

Western Australia's Industrial Relations Commission orders the state's nurses to call off planned industrial action – an instruction that will almost certainly be ignored.

ABC News · Nov 23, 2022

WA nurse strike could be stopped by heeding five per cent pay demand, says union

A planned state-wide strike of nurses on Friday will only be stopped if the WA government agrees to a five per cent pay rise, says the Australian Nursing Federation.

ABC News · Nov 23, 2022