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Nurses' barbecue outside Deputy Prime Minister's office to highlight aged care - 19 November 2009
The Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch) will hold a community sausage sizzle outside Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Lalor electorate office on Wednesday 25 November to highlight the need for the Rudd Government to make aged care a 2010 budget priority. [ READ MORE ]

Victorian nurses' union to launch initiatives in Ballarat to help retain regional nurses and midwives - 19 November 2009
The Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch) will launch new initiatives next Monday 23 November 2009 designed to keep more than 1000 injured and ill nurses and midwives in the nursing workforce each year. This will save regional hospitals millions of dollars associated with nurse shortages, replacing nurses and training. [ READ MORE ]

La Trobe University undergraduate nurses support the Because We Care campaign - 18 November 2009
Melbourne's La Trobe University third year undergraduate nursing students took time out from their end of year ANF barbecue to support the Federal ANF Because We Care campaign aged and their aged care nursing colleagues. [ READ MORE ]

Victorian nurses' union to launch initiatives to help retain thousands of injured and ill nurses and midwives - 12 November 2009
The Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch) will launch innovative new initiatives next Monday 16 November 2009 designed to keep more than 1000 injured and ill nurses and midwives in the nursing workforce each year. This will save millions of dollars associated with nurse shortages, replacing nurses and training. [ READ MORE ]

Where do the aged care billions go? Taxpayers must be told. - 28 October 2009
The Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch) has called on the Federal Government to guarantee that taxpayer funding given to aged care providers is used for the nursing and personal care of residents following the news that another Victorian facility has been placed in administration. [ READ MORE ]

OHS National Model Laws - Not Good Enough! - 26 October 2009
OHS Reps Lunchtime Rally [ READ MORE ]

Graduate Nurse Program positions are still available - 20 October 2009
If you are a final year undergraduate nurse or midwife and missed out on a Graduate Nurse Program position for 2010 you can still apply for a number of unmatched positions. [ READ MORE ]

BUPA EBA Update No 5 - 15 October 2009
ANF (Vic Branch) Bupa members to cease industrial action [ READ MORE ]

Nurses and carers employed at Bupa Wodonga to begin implementing protected industrial action over wage offer - 14 October 2009
Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch) staff will today meet with nurses and personal care workers (PCWs) employed at Bupa aged care facility at Wodonga, to begin implementing protected industrial action after their employer failed to meet an agreement with their union on a new Enterprise Agreement. [ READ MORE ]

Bupa Chairman thinks MPs are worth a 3% per annum pay rise, but Bupa's own aged care workers get less than 2% - 12 October 2009
The Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch) says Bupa Australia is offering personal care workers at Bupa aged care facilities in Victoria a pay increase of less than 2 per cent per annum, while its Board Chairman, in his other role at the Commonwealth Remuneration Tribunal, recently agreed to Federal MPs getting a 3 per cent wage increase. [ READ MORE ]

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