Canberra Hospital radiation therapists protest

The Canberra Times

Radiation therapists walked off the job for an hour to protest. The therapists want better and more competitive wages after Queensland just offered a 25 per cent pay rise to its radiation therapists.

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00:00 Radiation therapists at Canberra Hospital walked off the job on Tuesday

00:04 afternoon protesting for a better wage deal. This comes after Queensland just

00:10 offered an interim 25% wage rise to its radiation therapists.

00:17 How are they going to get it?

00:19 With radiation!

00:21 We're here in Canberra and most of our staff are not from here.

00:25 So for someone like myself and for the younger staff that we have here,

00:29 it would be crazy not to consider an opportunity where we can move to somewhere like Queensland

00:34 and receive a significant amount more paid for the exact same work that we do now.

00:39 It has been over 12 months since this bargain has started.

00:44 It's been over six months since we got any update in a claim.

00:48 And that update was simply that the government was willing to look at it.

00:52 Now, this is not good enough.

00:54 [Cough]

00:55 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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