Nurses Rally - July 25, 2024 - video Dailymotion

Nurses met outside Griffith Base Hospital once more to campaign for better wages

Transcript

00:00What do we want everyone?

00:0250%!

00:04When can we want it?

00:05Now!

00:06I think we all know that we've been systematically underpaid for years.

00:11We've got one of the highest turnover rates going.

00:15We are now the lowest paid in Australia, which is just appalling.

00:20We're supposed to be one of the best states in the country.

00:23Well unfortunately the government's not showing that.

00:27So if we want to attract and retain some staff like the young ones we've got over here,

00:32we're going to have to pay them a wage that competes with Victoria and Queensland.

00:37Or we're not going to keep them.

00:38Fix the mess!

00:39Stop our stress!

00:41Fix the mess!

00:43Stop our stress!

00:45One, two, three, four.

00:48We need more employment!

00:52What we're telling everybody is that we are burnt out, exhausted,

00:56from consistently working short-staffed and doing extra hours to pick up the shortfall.

01:02And we have to do the extra hours.

01:04One, because we want to help our colleagues and keep our patients alive.

01:07But two, because we can't afford to pay our rent and pay our food

01:12if we don't get the extra money from the overtime.

01:15So it's a vicious circle and we've had enough.

01:21For more information visit www.fema.gov