2 November 2018
ANMF Industrial Action Escalates with Call for Help from Community
SHORT VIDEO LAUNCH TODAY
Where: ANMF Launceston Office Boardroom – 19 Brisbane Street, Launceston
When: TODAY, Friday 2 November 2018
Time: 2:00pm
Who: Emily Shepherd (ANMF, Secretary)
James Lloyd (ANMF President)
ANMF Branch Councillors
*Video clip 40 seconds in duration*
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch (ANMF) along with their Branch Council will today launch a short video which is representative of the struggle and fatigue nurses and midwives in the Tasmanian public sector are feeling. This is part of our members continued industrial action. The member made clip shows that despite ongoing efforts to provide patients with safe quality care, nurses and midwives need the Premier to act now to recognise, recruit and retain.
“Nurse and midwives started negotiating their public sector Log of Claims in May this year, and to date the Government have not put an offer on the table. Despite ongoing industrial action and calls from members for the Government to act to ensure safe and quality patient care, concerns from nurses and midwives have continued to go unanswered,” said ANMF Branch Secretary Emily Shepherd.
“With increasing numbers of double shifts and overtime, lack of capacity, ongoing bed block, and a significant black hole in the health budget, nurses and midwives are feeling the drain of propping up an ailing health system.”
The video will be launched by the Branch Secretary and President at 2pm today during ANMF’s monthly Council meeting in Launceston.
“The emotional monologue penned by a local Registered Nurse calls upon the community to show their support for nurses and midwives in their plight to secure an agreement that ensures all community members needing health care treatment in the future will be assured not only safe, but quality care and treatment.”
“The clip shows the despair that nurses and midwives in the public sector feel. Nurses and midwives are burn out, they are tired of holding out hope for the magic bullet after feeling let down by the Government election promises. Yet despite this, they continue to prop up the health system on their goodwill.”
“Nurses and midwives are taking industrial action reluctantly as they not only believe that they need to be recognised, they also believe that their patients deserve better as well.”
“It is clear that there are solutions that can be acted upon, the Premier just needs to stand up and lead his Government to make the positive decisions needed for nurses, midwives and the Tasmanian community,” said Ms Shepherd.
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Media contact:
Emily Shepherd, ANMF Tasmanian Branch Secretary
Mobile: 0400 884 021
Email: emily.shepherd@anmftas.org.au