NSW government orders nurses and midwives to stop organizing and striking, orders removal of strike information from social media. Union defies government, fined $130,000 for doing so.

a year ago by cyu to c/unions

The union representing nurses in NSW has been handed four fines totalling $130,000 over strike action it took to fight…

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GuyLivingHere 25 points a year ago

You can't remove the right to strike. That's dictatorship-level behaviour. Fuck the NSW govt. Solidarity from Canada.

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T00l_shed 13 points a year ago

I agree with you, but the governments have deemed them "essential". It is absolutely fucked up, and I think governments need a reminder that strikes are the polite alternative

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ordnance_qf_17_pounder 15 points a year ago

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minorkeys 7 points a year ago

They can't make it illegal but they can make it impossible to do legally. Never forget that business and politics don't care that we suffer and will always push toward their own interests at the the expense of everything else.

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