End of Year Celebration

Last night (14 November) the Medical Scientists Association of Victoria (MSAV) held its Annual General Meeting. Along with the meeting there was an update given to all members of the MSAV, VPA and AHP about Public Sector bargaining which is due to commence in 2025. It was a terrific evening with members coming together to…

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Lifeblood: Another Public Health Service Offering Dud Deals

Unfortunately, management at Lifeblood seemed to be following in the footsteps of Melbourne Pathology and refusing to acknowledge the unique workforce they have. However, Lifeblood’s management have decided they want to alienate their entire workforce with dud deals. Members at Lifeblood are working stave off a proposed amalgamation of over five Enterprise Agreements, which would…

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Notice of AHP Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of the Association of Hospital Professionals will be held by Zoom at 12.30 pm on Tuesday 26 November. Members can access the following meeting documents by clicking on the links: Agenda Minutes of the last AGM Financial Report

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Flexible Working Arrangements

While it seems like a long time away, it will be Christmas and the end of 2024 before you know it. If you’re seeking to put in place Flexible Working Arrangements for the new year, the best thing you can do is to start having these conversations about Flexible Working Arrangements now with your team…

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Reproductive Health, Leave and Work

In 2020, Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) began the Reproductive Health Leave campaign to ensure any person, regardless of their reproductive health challenges, can fully and meaningfully participate in work, and in turn are afforded the social and economic security they rightfully deserve. Reproductive health issues can affect anybody, at any stage of their…

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Reproductive Health Leave

In 2020, Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) began the Reproductive Health Leave campaign to ensure any person, regardless of their reproductive health challenges, can fully and meaningfully participate in work, and in turn are afforded the social and economic security they rightfully deserve. Today on World Sexual Health Day, we are pushing to see…

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No Pay? No Way!

Over the past decades staff reductions forced through budget cuts has caused workloads to steadily increase. Health managers have long stopped thinking about how we cope with extra work. We are just expected to do more and more work in the same amount of time. In 2015, hundreds of thousands of hours of unpaid time…

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Anna Stewart Memorial Project

What is the Anna Stewart Memorial Project? Designed to encourage more women to be present and active in unions, the Anna Stewart Memorial Project is a structured, two week long internship program consisting of two days each week at Trades Hall, with the remaining days in a union of choice. In some cases women nominated…

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Healthy Futures

Every day we work to protect health – but what’s the health impact of our super? Right now Aware Super, Australia’s health and community services industry super funds, is investing our money in fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas. Burning these fuels for electricity is hugely harmful to our health. Air pollution from coal-fired electricity…

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