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Workers are protesting management’s decision to create another middle-management role instead of investing in frontline cleaning staff.

HACSU State Secretary Robbie Moore said workers had reached a breaking point.

The stop-work actions are a direct response to the Government’s failure to bargain in good faith.

HACSU has raised serious concerns about the health system’s capacity to cope with any increase in demand over the New Year period.

Workers are demanding immediate action, including, urgent recruitment and advertising/backfilling of all vacancies.

After over 12 months of negotiations, the government has failed to provide a reasonable package on conditions matters.

The stop-work action involves a broad range of hospital workers, including cleaners, food services staff, tradespeople.

Workers are taking strike action after the government failed to negotiate a reasonable wage increase by the agreed 1 December deadline.

Chronic vacancies, rising demand and relentless caseloads have become the norm.

Without action, Tasmanians will continue to face longer wait times, delayed care, and overstretched hospitals.

Medical imaging workers at the RHH will walk off the job in response to escalating staffing shortages and heavy service pressures.

Tasmanian cardiac physiologists and neurophysiology scientists remain the lowest paid in the country.

The action follows a breakdown in talks over the government’s push to slash CTU staffing by 58 per cent.

At membership meetings held statewide, members voted decisively against the offer

Workers have been seeking proper compensation when they are required to train and orientate new staff.

HACSU Ambulance members are furious at the government’s decision.

Low level industrial action is already in place across the three areas as a result of the delays in providing the backpay figures.

Adding to workers’ frustration, most public sector agreements expired at the end of June.

The CTU often provides the last option for treatment for Tasmanians with rare and advanced cancers.

HACSU is calling on Jeremy Rockliff to immediately present a fair wage offer and end the cycle of delay.