00:00Coming on the social media platform and influencing people to talk bad against nursing and midfee personnel and teachers and
00:09communication workers and EPA and all of the other unions who are lobbying continuously as we have done before under
00:19the last government.
00:21You're coming to wash your mouth on nursing and midfee personnel.
00:25So we don't deserve some of the fat checks you get into.
00:30Suffice it to say, Nurses Association President Edie Stewart is beyond peeved in light of a recent report highlighting a
00:38number of social media influencers who were hired at WASA for reported salaries between $8,000 and $12,000.
00:47Nursing is not no make-work. The role of enrolled nursing assistants and patient care assistants and registered nurses and
00:54registered mental nurses and district health visitors is not make-work.
00:58Look, you need those jobs. I guess. Anyway, let me just cool myself a little bit here.
01:08But Stewart says the real issue is with the government, which he says has seen it fit to deny resources
01:14to legitimate workers.
01:16NCRHA, which is 400 plus nurses short. So you have one organization that is short of 400 plus personnel to
01:28properly and safely deliver care.
01:31So you need to hire 400 plus persons, but you go and hire 400 plus persons in another institution that
01:39is already overstaffed.
01:40So we must appreciate that and we must understand some of these dynamics because all of this, this, this legalized
01:51corruption, some persons would call it patronage, political patronage.
01:56It does a number of things, you know. It does a number of things. Yes, it puts money in the
02:04pockets of a few, but it denies the ability to direct resources where it ought to go, where it really
02:12and truly ought to go.
02:14A number of the personalities have taken to social media to justify their employment with the authority and provide information
02:22on their duties and functions.
02:25Meantime, one such person uploaded a satirical video with so-called proof of his qualifications.
02:31All these papers here is my qualifications. Yeah? English. I have a one. In maths, I also have a one.
02:55I have a one. I have a degree in Spanish. I'm also a two in social studies.
03:03Well, quit messing up my name, please. I am more than qualified.
03:09Renasa Cutting, TV6 News.
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