Two years ago, Grace Searle moved to Melbourne due to the low pay and high workload of working as an emergency nurse in Sydney.A NSW woman who left for better pay and working conditions as a nurse in Victoria has backed the union's push for a higher wage increase.
"I was witnessing … in hospitals all across Sydney and NSW just how much pressure the nurses were under, how stressful their jobs were," she told ABC News. "Pressure that doesn't always have to be there … and then also being paid barely enough to live on," she said.The nurse moved to Victoria about two years ago and said the difference in conditions "almost felt like heaven".
The NSWNMA, which Ms Searle previously worked for, accepted an offer to receive an initial 3 per cent pay rise back paid until July 1 on the provision its members would not strike during a four-week negotiation period which has since ended.Mr Park said on Wednesday he was "disappointed" the action went ahead, after the Minns government put forward a proposal for a multi-year 15 per cent deal.