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The Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee supports all actions taken by workers in the sector. But the token stop-work meetings and work bans called by the HSU bureaucracy will do nothing to resolve the crisis in health.
In some areas, people are waiting years for essential medical appointments which are supposed to be conducted within weeks, placing their health and their lives at risk.
As Berger states, the failure to protect hospital patients and health workers from COVID is a denial of their fundamental right to physical safety in hospitals.
Health sector unions have endorsed Australian government’s “let it rip” policies, aiding and abetting this socially criminal assault on public health and the disastrous increase in patients catching COVID-19 while in hospital.