Health & Aged Care
United Voice health & aged care members work in Aboriginal health, public and private health, hospitals, ambulance services, disability services, aged care, dentistry, radiography, pathology services and other health services. We provide essential and emergency health services to some of the most vulnerable members of our society. We are at hand to give you and your family professional care when you need it.
Recent News
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Friday 23 March 2012
Nurses Take Court Action. Mental Health Patients in General Wards
- Monday 19 March 2012
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About the Health & Aged Care Sector
United Voice QHealth - Your QHealth Union
The United Voice QHealth website is dedicated to Queensland Health United Voice members as a platform for establishing a strong, democratic health union.
Throughout 2008, the United Voice QHealth web site communicated with members on a broad range of topics including the implementation of the Health Practitioners agreement and the negotiation of EB7.
For more information, check out http://www.yourqhealthunion.org.au/
Fair Share for Aged Care
The United Voice Fair Share for Aged Care website is dedicated to direct care and support workers in WA, SA, ACT, NT and QLD employed in the residential and community aged care sector.
With an ageing population and longer life expectancy the importance of the work of aged care members is becoming more prominent and visible to the community as families have to make the difficult arrangements for the care of their elderly loved ones.
Unfortunately there are big problems in the aged care industry and as a result thousands of aged care members across Australia are working together to achieve real change across the sector.
For more information, please visit http://www.fairshareforagedcare.org.au/
In this new paper, United Voice members argue that low pay impacts the quality of aged care services. Traditional avenues to lift workers out of low pay have not been effective and hence government intervention is necessary. Without wage justice, experienced aged care workers will continue to leave the industry in search of a better deal. With attention squarely on the industry during the aged care reform process, this is the opportunity to fix the problem of wage injustice. Working in Aged Care
