President of the National Nursing Association Idi Stuart says thousands of Regional Health Authority workers , especially nurses and midwives are devastated to learn they are not automatically included in the PSA's latest salary agreement.
He's calling for the immediate resumption of stalled wage talks, even as the Public Services Association moves to clarify what its new settlement actually covers.
00:00The Nursing Association is calling on the Minister of Finance to instruct the CEO of the Eastern Regional Health Authority to resume salary negotiations, which the association says was stalled following the April general election.
00:13We are calling for the immediate recommencement of those negotiations with a timely settlement early in the new year. Barring that, we would want at least in the interim that payment that was promised to public servants to at least be given to all Regional Health Authority workers in the interim.
00:37The association describes the situation as unacceptable, noting that RHA workers continue to operate on 2013 salaries 12 years later.
00:47We are willing to partner with the Public Services Association to demand and provide an example of why you cannot allow this situation to continue where Regional Health Authority workers continue to be disadvantaged.
01:04Meanwhile, the Public Services Association is attempting to clear the air on who benefits from its latest settlement.
01:11In a statement, the PSA confirmed that the 10 percent salary increase, COLA consolidation and arrears dating back to January 1, 2014 apply only to Ministry of Health officers assigned to RHAs since they remain part of the civil service.
01:29The union says two other categories, workers transferred into RHAs and those hired directly by RHAs must still have their own terms negotiated.
01:40For them, the union says new negotiations must take place and it plans to meet with RHAs to settle salaries, allowances and arrears under a separate memorandum of agreement.
01:52Despite talks pending, the PSA has written to all RHAs requesting that an advance on arrears be paid to eligible workers by December 23, 2025.
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