Thousands of doctors to strike for three days over salaries and unsafe working conditions
It marks NSW doctors’ first industrial action since 1998, the union says.
Thousands of doctors will stop working for three days next week, leaving public hospitals with a skeleton staff and defying legal orders banning their industrial action.
The strike at eight NSW hospitals will mean delaying elective surgeries and cancelling non-urgent consultations, the Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation NSW (ASMOF NSW) said on Wednesday.
The union is pushing 10 demands including a 30% increase to base rate salaries, guaranteed 10-hour breaks between shifts, CPD leave, limited use of short-term contracts and “appropriate” penalty rates for overtime, shift work and on-call hours.
ASMOF NSW executive director Andrew Holland said nine months of negotiations with NSW Health ended without a result in February.
