Thanks Sarah Missen
Industrial disputes & news - 21 May 2025
QLD #nurses & #midwives; #WestWimmera Shire Council; #Kempe; #RiverinaWater; #Mondiale; #Snowy2.0; #AlliedPinnacle; #BMSCranes; #TWU; #CFMEU ACT & Vic #TAFEs
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-21-may?
Queensland #Nurses & #Midwives Union
#EB12 offer from Queensland Health information session Tuesday (6 May) 
3.30pm, register now 
https://bit.ly/4k6AC8o
6.00pm, register now https://bit.ly/42QPmRu
The government threats to #healthworkers backpay if Protected Industrial Action or undertake a formal ballot for Protected Industrial Action. As the government has already seen, we are a powerful force when we act together. 
Sudanese midwives deliver hope amid war and ruin http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKRygY #Sudan #Midwives #HumanRights #Hope #War
In the remote Amazon, midwives care for women stranded by drought
Midwife Tabita dos Santos Moraes, 51, touches the belly of Mayleane Melo, 22, to monitor the baby's position, at the Deus e Pai community in Tefe, Amazonas state, Brazil, October 24, 2024. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/brazil-amazon-midwives/
An excellent maternal health story pairing for your Monday:
My colleague Nalis Merelli's story on why midwife education is stuck in a Catch-22, and what that means for Black would-be midwives:
https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/18/midwife-training-expand-racial-diversity-maternal-health/
Obstetric Phantom, 18th century. The wood and leather model was used to teach medical students, and possibly midwives, about childbirth. It came from the Hospital del Ceppo in Pistoia, near Florence, founded in 1277.
Photo: Science Museum, London.
