We’re pleased to report that the ballot for the Multi-Employer Allied Health Professionals Agreement was successful.
Community Health
Community Health… The clock is ticking
On 12 July VAHPA and the Victorian Hospitals’ Association (VHIA) reached in-principle agreement on a deal for a new enterprise agreement for stand-alone community health. Two weeks later VAHPA members met to consider the merits of the [...]
Playing Merri Hell with Community Health
Close on 100 Victorian Allied Health Professionals downed tools today as part of VAHPA’s long-running Defending Community Health campaign. Workers in the long-neglected sector last received a wage increase some two and a quarter years [...]
Upcoming Rally to Defend Community Health
VAHPA members in Community Health are ramping up their campaign to achieve the strong agreement outcome that they have been fighting for. Allied Health Professionals in Community Health must have a modern and professional [...]
Defending Community Health – Campaign Update
Quite a bit has been happening in the Community Health campaign both at the bargaining table and at your workplaces. And as we move towards the end of the year thing will really start to ramp up. By the way, it is vital that you share [...]
Defending Community Health Mass Meeting
Viking Women are famous for their success in defending themselves from maurading hordes. Freydis Eiriksdottir, pictured above, first gained notoriety by fighting off a band of Vinlanders by herself while pregnant! Close to 50 VAHPA [...]
Community Health Votes No!
Community Health Professionals in 7 Community Health Centres sent a resounding message to management rejecting the sub-standard, non-union Enterprise Agreement that was offered by management last week at 9 centres. Results are delayed [...]
Community Health Professionals need your support
Community Health Professionals are set to become the worst paid Health Professionals in Australia should their agreement offer pass this week. The opportunity to fight for a better pay and conditions can only come if Community Health [...]
SAYING NO— Community Heath Professionals vote on Enterprise Agreement
Nine Victorian Community Health Centres are in the process of voting on a non-Union, management-offered Enterprise Agreement. The proposed Agreement is substandard on a range of levels and if voted up would have negative implications [...]
Confidential ballot won for Community Health Professionals
An outcry over the failure to allow Community Health Professionals to vote confidentially in an upcoming Enterprise Agreement ballot has led to a change of tune by management. As explained in last week’s HP Update, Community Health [...]
Community Health Professionals to be worst paid Health Professionals in Australia?
Members in Community Health are being urged to reject a proposed Enterprise Agreement (EA) that would see them become the worst paid Health Professionals in the Australia. In an attempt to sideline the Union and test the resolve of [...]
Delegates’ mass meeting kicks off Community Health campaign for 2014
A mass meeting of Delegates this week means the VHPA’s Community Health campaign will start 2014 with a bang. Community Health Delegates have been contacted in recent days to invite them to a mass meeting that is being held 6.30pm [...]