Hospitals and patients will be hit hard tomorrow because of the Minns Labor Government\u2019s mismanagement of wage negotiations with our hard-working nurses and midwives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Opposition Mark Speakman said Labor\u2019s failure to negotiate an outcome comes after successive budget cuts and empty promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s shocking that a government claiming to care about essential workers can let it get to this point. Nurses and midwives should be in our hospitals caring for patients, not out on the streets striking while the Government can\u2019t get its act together,\u201d Mr Speakman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This strike adds to the growing unrest within the public sector, with firefighters and transport workers also taking action. The Minns Government is losing control of essential services, leaving NSW in disarray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shadow Health Minister Kellie Sloane said that our nurses have been failed by the government. \u201cRyan Park and Chris Minns need to front up, take responsibility for the chaos and apologise to the people whose healthcare will be impacted by this strike tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chris Minns promised stability, but all he\u2019s delivered is bungled promises and deliveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations Damien Tudehope said that Chris Minns and Ryan Park created this mess and it\u2019s their job to fix it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a direct consequence of the NSW Labor lying to nurses across NSW before the election and making promises that they had no intention of keeping,\u201d Mr Tudehope said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey have failed our nurses and midwives, and they are failing the people of NSW. Enough is enough \u2013 it\u2019s time for this government to show some leadership and take responsibility for the chaos they\u2019ve caused.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Opposition is demanding Chris Minns and Ryan Park return to the negotiating table and resolve the crisis before further damage is done to NSW\u2019s already strained health system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hospitals and patients will be hit hard tomorrow because of the Minns Labor Government\u2019s mismanagement of wage negotiations with our hard-working nurses and midwives. Leader of the Opposition Mark Speakman said Labor\u2019s failure to negotiate an outcome comes after successive budget cuts and empty promises. \u201cIt\u2019s shocking that a government claiming to care about essential … Continue reading “Minns Labor Government fumbles as nurses walk off the job”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28969,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28968\/revisions\/28969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}