Hundreds of surgeries in New South Wales are set to be cancelled tomorrow as nurses and midwives go on strike. They have accused the state government of putting them behind other worker, after police were offered a significant pay rise. It comes amid a week of industrial unrest in Sydney.
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00:00Chanting filled Macquarie Street as Parliament resumed.
00:05Union Power! Union Power!
00:08The CFMEU's construction division was placed into administration
00:11over allegations of corruption and organised crime links.
00:14These rotten bastards sold the CFMEU out.
00:17In defiance of the administrators' advice not to attend the protest,
00:21members rallied against the takeover,
00:23including sacked NSW Secretary Darren Greenfield,
00:26who's fighting bribery charges.
00:28And us, as members of the CFMEU,
00:31need to get our union back in our hands,
00:34back in the members' hands.
00:35We're not going to change our minds.
00:37The independent administrator is there.
00:39He is there for a reason.
00:40Tomorrow, nurses and midwives will take to the streets.
00:43More than 600 surgeries are expected to be postponed.
00:47The government has refused to meet their demand
00:49for an immediate 15% pay rise.
00:52The union finds that even harder to accept
00:54now that police have been offered a bump of between 20% and 40%
00:58over four years.
00:59It does feel as though we are the ones that are left out here.
01:02We've seen pay increases delivered
01:04for most of the other public sector workforces now.
01:08And the government is also under pressure
01:10from the Electrical Trades Union.
01:12The government is staring down the threat
01:14of more industrial action on Thursday
01:16on Sydney's train network.
01:18Union members are planning work bans
01:20that could bring the network to a halt
01:22unless there's a trial of 24-hour services.