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oming to other essential services the latest target is our firefighters show your support on thursday i remember and i bear witness yesterday was a year since the first eba update and the anniversary of the release of rdns s log of claims that eba was approved by 93 of rdns nurses on august 13 11 months and 4 days later i remember mr baillieu in opposition critising the labor state government for two weeks of bed closures before negotiating an eba a campaign that was the grimmest i d be involved in to that point and the first time we were docked for taking action and i remember looking back fondly on that time i remember the premier saying there would be no pay increases beyond 2 5 without productivity off sets and thinking about how many more patients we care for every year at higher acuity of greater complexity and in a shorter time 4 more ed presentations and 3 more admissions annually to start i remember taking action in november and being called by distraught members with closed beds worried that opening those beds would be letting anf and our fight down i remember reading distorted media reports about patients endangered by our actions though the government has closed more beds than action in any of our campaigns has i remember subtle indications from our executive through several meetings that vhia had a public and a private face and i remember the release of minister davis s cabinet in confidence document submitted on international day of the midwife demonstrating the duplicity of a government that promised good faith and intended all along to despite the fact that our workforce largely consists of highly skilled tertiary trained staff that the labour market for tertiary skilled staff is competitive and health services find it difficult to attract and retain sufficient staff both for replacement and to treat additional patients and that increasing impact and application of technology means that the nature of the work performed by health professionals and the environment within which it is performed has changed markedly over the past twenty years and even within the last five years the degree of change experienced by a health professional easily surpasses that experienced by other professionals such as teachers of lawyers legal advice to the department of health suggests delaying instigation of formal bargaining for as long as practicable to enable pre bargaining engagement all quotes from the cabinet in confidence document nurses enterprise bargaining strategy submitted 5 5 2011 to the public sector industrial relations committee by health minister david davis which would have the crisis continue to a point whereby the industrial tribunal fair work australia is either called in or steps in because negotiations have broken down and the nurses action is deemed harmful to public welfare this would force both parties into arbitration where the government s push to reduce nurses conditions is likely to be successful because the tribunal is not permitted under the constitution to tell states the number identity or appointment of the workforce they employ the age i remember fwa suspending our action i remember anf offering concessions and vhia being unprepared to move an inch image from victorian trades hall council source i remember watching reports of the november rally from london gutted to miss the first anf members rally of the new millennium and with fond memories of those i participated in during the kennett years and finding the palliative care conference i was at not nearly worth missing it i remember opening beds because mr baillieu wouldn t negotiate while they were closed and i remember that nothing happened anf vic branch assistant secretary paul gilbert addressing nurses midwives and members of the public at the northern hospital december 11 2011 i remember community rallies and hearing the same information from all three members of the executive delivered in their individual styles inspiring and motivating every time anf vic branch secretary lisa fitzpatrick assistant secretary paul gilbert and assistant secretary pip carew not pictured delivering thousands of petitions to health minister david davis centre december 16 2011 i remember attending sporting events federations square and gathering petitions in federation square and the queen vic night market i remember hundreds of nurses and midwives marching from dallas brooks hall to treasury to deliver those petitions to the minister i remember community support radio interviews endless seas of red press coverage and the epoch long turn from attack to support from pay claim to ratios i remember the unprecedented request that we consider giving our secretary authority to resign on our behalf rather than resigning in dribbles and drabbles if the changed the government proposed came in and i remember wishing i d be first not sixth to put my signed form on the stage i remember voting for action that i never really thought would never again be necessary in this state the withdrawal of nursing and midwifery labour i remember cheering on brave nurses and midwives who had the courage to leave the bedside now to protect the profession and the public into the future i remember the distinction between taking unprotected action and being subject to a federal court order prohibiting me from encouraging or inciting members to take illegal action anf vic branch secretary lisa fitzpatrick announcing the vhia agreement to fwa oversight of negotiations alfred hospital march 9 2011 i remember with pride the determination of members who were not subject to the order that lack of directed leadership would not stop action and the state wide orchestration of a show of support for nurses at a hospital renown for its dampening of nursing action i remember with delighted triumph that this was the site of the announcement that walkouts would stop because the government was finally agreeing to proper genuine binding negotiations with fair work oversight i remember marching with other unions participating in the fight against other injustices i remember that though our fight as nurses and midwives may be over for now the fight to keep our essential services our colleagues and fellow union members across a widening range of professions disciplines and industries continues the fight to safeguard victoria s future continues i ve discussed the attacks on and ongoing defence of our education sectors the gutting of tafe funding and the attempts to impose conditions that would sever the collegiate team based teaching culture essential for optimum outcomes staff retention and professional development of teachers in primary and secondary schools the latest attack on the numbers and funding of our fire fighters will be protested on thursday it will not be the last our fight will comprise many battles and will stretch on for another two years before this government introduces olive branches of concession in the lead up to the election and our fight extends across state boundaries because despite the aeu campaign song lyrics baillieu baillieu he s going to fail you he s the worse premier in all of australia the battles are more furiously pitched and more viciously fought with longer terms of government ahead in the states north of us we have 810 days until the victorian state election november 29 2014 929 days until the nsw election march 28 2015 and 901 932 days until the queensland election march 2015 and sometime before that we as a nation will have to decide in which direction we want to go in perhaps the most pivotal federal election in recent time we are still at the beginning of a battle that is visceral ideological and important they will hope we forget i will remember thanks to a typo this was originally posted as 840 days 815 days and teachers are striking 05 wednesday sep 2012 posted by tara nipe in uncategorized 9 comments i wrote yesterday about my take on why victoria s public sector teachers were taking unprecedented strike action today was the day and i am so impressed with the amazing show of strength australian education union victoria demonstrated at 12 35 the police were ready and the first nurses were on the scene in red on the stairs just above the pedestrians two of our fantastic staff members and anf job rep damien hurrell and his kids their mum s a nurse too down from bendigo to support quality education in victoria s public schools 12 39 and across the street more nurses are coming but i can t greet them because i m distracted coming from the north end of spring street and chanting loudly here come hundreds of independent education union members who though taking unprotected action have left their catholic schools to support their public sector colleagues 12 50 it s all happening as i turn away from the marching chanting purple clad ieu teachers here come yet more red clad nurses and midwives while across the road are members of the community and public sector union it s 12 51 and we re ready for the teachers and right on cue here they come the nurses and midwives hurry up the stairs of parliament house to greet the teachers after their long march from rod laver arena in the foreground dressed in orange is teacher comedian and mc damian callinan ieu members also move in to make room for the thousands of teachers marching on parliament house teachers have a lot in common with nurses and midwives but they don t move as quickly as us while waiting for them to meander up collins street i was irresistibly reminded of anf vic branch secretary lisa fitzpatrick s reminders to walk out slowly not like a nurse but what they lacked in speed they teachers more than made up for in numbers my vantage point was better than those in the crowd but not a good as that of the opposition politicians standing high on the steps of parliament house this photo was taken by mp jenny mikakos used with permission and shows the scale of the crowd at this point teachers were still turning into collins street from swanson street though the sky was overcast no rain fell until it was all over but the wind was gusty so strong in fact that after several aeu marshalls were called on for crowd duty it took several nurses to hold the banners up anf vic branch assistant secretary pip carew shows her support by holding up a post of an enormous aeu banners after a member was almost blown over while the teachers squashed in as tightly as possible i asked aeu victoria president mary bluett if i could take a photo here she is with her proud daughter standing up together for the future of our state and the future of our state s teachers thanks to daniel cohen who corrected my original designation of ms bluett as aeu state secretary the speeches that followed were short and to the point starting with federal actu secretary dave oliver the casualisation of the education profession where 18 of teachers and half of aides are on short term contracts is emblematic of a wide spread and growing problem in australia i won t post photos of the rest of the speakers because they re also the backs of heads in distillation victorian trades hall secretary brian boyd emphasised that the presence of so many other union members showed that we are none of us fighting alone that s right brian touch one touch all independent education union victoria tasmania general secretary debra james spoke about the common fight teachers have regardless of sector and praised her members whose overwhelming presence in solidarity was no protected action opposition leader daniel andrews relayed for those who hadn t heard it the premier s belief that the strike would achieve nothing doing nothing said minister andrews is something the premier knows all about he went on to promise that he would listen and respond to the concerns of teachers as at our delegates conference he was clear that he would not be making any promises about other outcomes australian education union victoria president mary bluett perhaps inspired by the sign below or perhaps the inspiration for it promised the crowd that they d continue to fight term after term the best sign i ve seen in this or any campaign since the kennett years she was interrupted by thousands of people spontaneous chanting one term ted and that seems a fitting note on which to end 815 days to go mr baillieu i d be delighted to have a source for this amazing photo of striking teachers at rod laver arena today it s all over twitter but uncredited 816 days and counting 04 tuesday sep 2012 posted by tara nipe in uncategorized 1 comment tomorrow victoria s public teachers will be taking strike action in unprecedented numbers estimates are in the vicinity of 40 00 teachers across the state with additional backup from their support staff i will be there to cheer them on in part because our campaign was supported by their union the australian education union but even more because with no originality at all i believe that robust high quality publicly funded equitably accessible health and education are the foundation on which our future is built our greatest most valuable asset is the next generation and that means we have to fight to ensure that they are as well equipped as possible for their lives ahead henry adams famously said a teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops most people who love learning can identify the teachers who had a significant impact on them i ve been fortunate enough to have had a number of great educators across my life including the memorable and inspirational ian mcauliffe in primary school phillip reed and heather jackson at secondary school june cabena during my nursing training and lynn gillam at university from each of them i learned things that influence the person i am the way i teach others the way i learn what i m interested in and the direction i choose to take my life like nurses and midwives teachers are underappreciated by a public that often thinks our work is menial and easily performed and by governments who know better but don t allow that knowledge to be reflected in policy or pay if it were up to them the bulk of our essential professional work would be performed by aides overseen by the highly educated skilled women and men who comprise our professions perhaps this disrespect is why despite pre election promises by ted baillieu that our teachers would be not the worst not the worst paid the best paid teachers in australia and a declaration from victorian education minister peter hall that we see no reason why victoria s teachers should not be paid the highest in the nation eba negotiations between the state government and australian education union victoria are going nowhere instead of the 8 pay increase that would see victoria s teachers have pay parity with their colleagues in wa the government s offer is 2 5 half a percent lower than inflation anything higher is only negotiable in return for productivity gains and for the government t...