{"id":231790,"date":"2025-10-22T06:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231790\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:19:11","slug":"wages-war-for-nurses-and-midwives-ends-with-1-8-billion-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231790\/","title":{"rendered":"Wages war for nurses and midwives ends with $1.8 billion offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland nurses employed by the state\u2019s public hospitals have \u201coverwhelmingly\u201d voted yes to a pay offer put forward by the government, ending a 10-month battle for better wages and working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The Queensland Nurses and Midwives\u2019 Union confirmed the tally of a ballot, with 83 per cent of members voting yes supporting the offer put forward in August for an 11 per cent wage increase over three years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Queensland nurses and midwives have secured an 11 per cent pay increase.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/29552dd1be434fc1f939e868e7c262cee981ba4a689ad823f24169e421fef350.jpeg\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Queensland nurses and midwives have secured an 11 per cent pay increase.Credit: Courtney Kruk<\/p>\n<p>The union told members this was a \u201chuge improvement\u201d from the government\u2019s initial offer in May, which led to public nurses and midwives launching protected industrial action in June.<\/p>\n<p>QNMU secretary Sarah Beaman said the decision showed the \u201cincredible collective strength\u201d of the union\u2019s members, who had secured $1.8 billion for Queensland\u2019s Health\u2019s more than 60,000 nurses and midwives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen this epic, 10-month EB12 campaign began, the initial state government offer stood at $900 million,\u201d Beaman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also included the attempted removal of rights and conditions that would have eroded the future of free healthcare statewide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ballot closed at 5pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I commend and applaud the QNMU members who stood strong,\u201d Beaman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland nurses employed by the state\u2019s public hospitals have \u201coverwhelmingly\u201d voted yes to a pay offer put forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-231790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}