{"id":537637,"date":"2026-06-16T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/537637\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:03:16","slug":"allied-health-workers-walk-off-the-job-in-victoria-as-pay-negotiations-break-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/537637\/","title":{"rendered":"Allied health workers walk off the job in Victoria as pay negotiations break down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disruptions are expected at Victorian public hospitals today as thousands of allied health workers walk off the job over a pay dispute.<\/p>\n

Radiographers, sonographers, physiotherapists, podiatrists, speech pathologists and social workers are participating in a 24-hour strike from midnight on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The union representing allied health workers said the industrial action came after protracted bargaining and “insulting and disrespectful” wage offers from the Victorian government.<\/p>\n

The strike action involves branches of the Health Services Union, including the Victorian Allied Health Professionals Association (VAHPA), the Medical Scientists Association of Victoria (MSAV), the Victorian Psychologists Association (VPA) and the Association of Hospital Pharmacists (AHP).<\/p>\n

More than 13,000 allied health professionals will be covered by a new Public Sector Enterprise Agreement being negotiated.<\/p>\n

The union is seeking a 36.18 per cent wage increase over three years.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

The strike includes radiographers, sonographers, physiotherapists, podiatrists, speech pathologists and social workers. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The VAHPA said it was the first time allied health workers had taken 24-hour strike action.<\/p>\n

VAHPA executive officer Andrew Hewat said allied health workers were a “largely forgotten workforce”.<\/p>\n

“We want a wage offer and conditions that the allied health professionals deserve,” he told 774 ABC Melbourne.<\/p>\n

“At the moment they’re just being completely disrespected and the offer that did come through recently \u2014 only after we announced we were going to take industrial action \u2014 falls far short of the mark.<\/p>\n

“We need to be able to compete with our colleagues interstate and we’re far behind them and we also need to address some of the shortfalls in terms of our career classification structures.”<\/p>\n

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Victorian allied health workers say they are paid less than their interstate counterparts. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The union said urgent care staff would remain on the job during the strike action.<\/p>\n

A Victorian government spokesperson said negotiations between the parties were continuing in good faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disruptions are expected at Victorian public hospitals today as thousands of allied health workers walk off the job…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[275],"tags":[206661,18,231061,135,475,474,7005,19,17,18416,13269,43314],"class_list":["post-537637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-allied-health","tag-eire","tag-govenment","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hospitals","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pay","tag-strike","tag-union"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116758748658987834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}