Physical description
Tabloid paper
Publication type
non-fiction
Summary
Nurses' Action succeeded RANF News and preceded On the Record branch bulletins. Barbara Carson retired as secretary at the start of 1986, newly-elected secretary Irene Bolger introduced a new approach to 'communication with the membership. This newspaper was the first step in keeping members informed about issues that affect them.'
Nurses Action August 1986. Nurses fight back
Nurses Action September 1986. The struggle goes on
Nurses Action October 1986. Outrage over gradings
Nurses Action November 1986. Not a new claim
Nurses Action December 1986. Unanimous vote on proposal
Nurses Action February 1987. Victory
Nurses Action March 1987. Gippsland sackings
Nurses Action April 1987. National wage case
Nurses Action May 1987. Dying with dignity
Nurses Action June 1987. Change in the state of health
Nurses Action July 1987. Busy year for RANF (Vic Branch) professional and nursing officers
Nurses Action August 1987. The fight against closures
Nurses Action September 1987. Planning the future nursing workforce
Nurses Action November 1987. Pay increase: nurses granted 4%
Nurses Action December 1987. Higher duties success
Nurses Action February 1988. RANF and N.S.W.N.A relations
Nurses' Action March 1988. The Australian Nurses Journal
Nurses' Action April/May 1988. Professionalism and unionism: contradictions and tensions
Nurses' Action August 1988. Professional rates
Nurses' Action Special Edition September 1988. Editorial comment: from the Branch Council
Nurses' Voice September 1988. RANF is at the crossroads (Additional information provided with September Branch newsletter)
Nurses Action January 1989. Professional rates
Nurses Action April 1989. Hannah Sellers appointed Assistant Secretary
Keywords
References
- ANMF (Vic Branch) : Our history The history of the Victorian nurses’ union tells the story of nurses' slow, but steady evolution from doctors' handmaidens into professionals consistently voted by Australians as among the most trusted
- ‘More than just the money – 100 years of the Victorian nurses’ union’, Ilsa Colson, Prowling Tiger Press, 2001 ISBN/ISSN: 0958664749 A social history of the Australian Nursing [and Midwifery] Federation, Victorian Branch. To work out the future direction of nursing it is essential that we understand its past, and documented in the pages of this book are the struggles and victories told in the words of its members, both past and present.
