Community Health

VAHPA is proud to announce the launch of our Members’ Solidarity Fund on 30 March 2022. When VAHPA Members are bargaining for a new or replacemen...

COVID-19 Disability Sector Response The Health Services Union (HSU) National Office has been representing the Victorian Allied Health Professionals...

Community Health Update After the celebratory “Our Agreement’s been approved!!” cheers in all Agreements comes the follow up questions, usua...

ALLIED HEALTH ACTIVIST – FEBRUARY 7, 2019 IN THIS EDITION: ‣ New Community Health Agreement voted up ‣ Physiotherapists keep their Christmas...

On 12 July VAHPA and the Victorian Hospitals’ Association (VHIA) reached in-principle agreement on a deal for a new enterprise agreement for stand-a...

Close on 100 Victorian Allied Health Professionals downed tools today as part of VAHPA’s long-running Defending Community Health campaign. Workers ...

VAHPA members in Community Health are ramping up their campaign to achieve the strong agreement outcome that they have been fighting for. Allied Heal...

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...

Viking Women are famous for their success in defending themselves from maurading hordes. Freydis Eiriksdottir, pictured above, first gained notoriety ...

Community Health Kicks Off! Community Health Members will be aware that the hard-fought Code Blue Public Sector Campaign concluded successfully last...

As some Members will be aware from our last community health e-mail, we have recently been in negotiations with the VHIA around the timing of the Comm...

Following the vote of VHPA Members at the mass meeting in December 2014, the VHPA has been working furiously with VHIA to finalise drafting of the fin...

Community Health Professionals in 7 Community Health Centres sent a resounding message to management rejecting the sub-standard, non-union Enterprise ...

Community Health Professionals are set to become the worst paid Health Professionals in Australia should their agreement offer pass this week. The opp...

Nine Victorian Community Health Centres are in the process of voting on a non-Union, management-offered Enterprise Agreement. The proposed Agreement i...

An outcry over the failure to allow Community Health Professionals to vote confidentially in an upcoming Enterprise Agreement ballot has led to a chan...

Members in Community Health are being urged to reject a proposed Enterprise Agreement (EA) that would see them become the worst paid Health Profession...

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 ...

The Fair Work Commission has delayed a move by the VHPA to take industrial action at several Community Health Services. Shortly before the holiday br...

Victoria’s Health Minister, David Davis should help resolve the Community Health Professionals Enterprise Agreement says the VHPA. Last week the Mi...

Pictured above are Community Health members getting the message out to colleagues and management at the mass meeting -  from left, Lisa Magnusson, ...

Did you know? Podiatrists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Speech Pathologists are being paid less than Dietitians, Audiologists and Psy...

The announcement of a $316 million budget surplus is a slap in the face for Health Professionals working in Victoria’s Community Health Centres and ...

In a few weeks time it will be three years since Community Health Professionals last had a pay rise. This is an appalling anniversary the VHIA and Com...

Members’ logs of claims for the Enterprise Agreement have now been served on ten individual Community Health Centres (CHCs). These Centres have ele...

RECENTLY the managers of a Community Health Centre in Melbourne’s northeast sent their Health Professional employees a misleading and inflammatory e...

The latest pay offer by Community Health management would be an unfair rip-off with VHPA members ending up getting $5,000 a year less than similarly q...

The Community Health Centre (CHC) Campaign continues to gather momentum with more Centres electing Health Professionals Delegates and work underway at...

Newly-elected delegates from around nine community health centres met on Tuesday this week to discuss plans for their Enterprise Agreement campaigns. ...

More than 160 health professionals attended a recent round of meetings in over 25 Community Health Centres (CHC) to discuss the current Enterprise Agr...