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A widescale nurses’ strike has triggered warnings to keep ambulances and EDs clear of minor cases as Labor feels the heat for “refusing” to fix a gender pay gap, Australian Associated Press reports. Nurses and midwives were expected to walk off the job across NSW for 12 hours today after demands for a 15% pay rise this year were rebuffed.
NSW Health, which had begun contacting patients about postponing surgeries, challenged the strike in the state’s industrial relations commission yesterday, emerging victorious late in the afternoon. The commission ordered the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association to cease the strike action immediately. In the face of official orders to halt their strike, rallies are scheduled in 16 locations including Albury, Newcastle, Tamworth and outside premier Chris Minns’ electorate office in Sydney.
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