ANMF has today made an application to the Fair Work Commission for protected industrial action ballot orders (PIABOs).
ANMF made the application in response to the resolution members passed at the statewide meeting on 21 March. If the ballot is successful, members will have the option of taking a range of protected industrial actions at a later date once the current agreement expires on 30 April.
It’s important to note that the ballot will ask members to vote yes or no to a list of industrial actions. You are not voting to take industrial action; you will only be voting to have the option to take some or all of the actions at a time to be determined by a future statewide members meeting.
It is important that all members vote in this ballot and that all members vote YES in this ballot. A successful vote requires 50 per cent plus one of the eligible members in each health network or workplace to vote, and for more than half to vote YES.
It is essential your health network or smaller workplace meets both ballot hurdles to be able to participate in any protected industrial action campaign. There is one PIABO application for each of the employers listed below, a total of 106 applications.
Each employer listed below is a respondent to the Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020-2024 (EBA) that expires on 30 April 2024.
If the applications are granted, the Fair Work Commission will issue orders requiring each employer below to provide a list of employees covered by the EBA to VERO, our selected independent ballot provider.
Similarly, ANMF will provide VERO with a list of ANMF members employed at each of the 106 employers.
VERO must keep this information confidential.
VERO will then undertake an analysis to determine who appears on both the employer list and the ANMF member list. Those who appear on both lists will be eligible to vote in the ballot.
The vote will determine whether ANMF members can take legally protected industrial action in support of a replacement EBA.
More information, including when the ballot will take place, will be provided once the Fair Work Commission issues the orders that we seek.
Workplaces covered by the Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2020-2024
Albury Wodonga Health (Wodonga Hospital)
Alexandra District Hospital
Alfred Health
Alpine Health
Austin Health
Bairnsdale Regional Health Service
Barwon Health
Bass Coast Health
Beaufort and Skipton Health Service
Beechworth Health Service
Benalla Health
Bendigo Health
Boort District Health
Calvary Health Bethlehem Hospital Limited
Casterton Memorial Hospital
Central Gippsland Health Service
Central Highlands Rural Health
Cohuna District Hospital
Colac Area Health
Corryong Health
Darlingford Upper Goulburn Nursing Home
Dental Health Services Victoria
Dhelkaya Health
East Grampians Health Services
East Wimmera Health Service
Eastern Health
Echuca Regional Health
Gippsland Southern Health Service
Goulburn Valley Health
Grampians Health
Great Ocean Road Health
Heathcote Health
Hesse Rural Health Service
Heywood Rural Health
Indigo North Health Inc
Inglewood & District Health Service
Red Cliffs and Community Aged Care Services Inc (Trading as Jacaranda Village)
Kerang District Health
Kilmore District Health
Kooweerup Regional Health Service
Kyabram District Health Services
Latrobe Regional Hospital
Lyndoch Living
Mallee Track Health and Community Service
Mansfield District Hospital
Maryborough District Health Service
Melbourne Health
Mercy Hospitals Victoria Ltd
Mildura Base Public Hospital
Monash Health
Moyne Health Services
NCN Health
Northeast Health Wangaratta
Northern Health
Omeo District Health
Orbost Regional Health
Peninsula Health
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute (Trading as Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre)
Portland District Health
The Queen Elizabeth Centre
Robinvale District Health Services
Rochester & Elmore District Health Service
The Royal Children’s Hospital
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital
The Royal Women’s Hospital
Rural Northwest Health
Seymour Health
South Gippsland Hospital
South West Healthcare
St Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne) Limited
Swan Hill District Health
Tallangatta Health Service
Terang and Mortlake Health Service
Timboon & District Health Care Service
Tweddle Child & Family Health Service
West Gippsland Healthcare Group
West Wimmera Health Service
Western District Health Service
Western Health
Yarram & District Health Service
Yarrawonga Health
Yea and District Memorial Hospital
COMMUNITY HEALTH
Access Health and Community
Ballarat Community Health
Banyule Community Health
Bellarine Community Health Ltd
Better Health Network
Bendigo Community Health Services Ltd
Cohealth Limited
DPV Health Ltd
EACH
Gateway Health Limited
Gippsland Lakes Complete Health Limited
Grampians Community Health
Ranges Community Health (Trading as Inspiro)
IPC Health Ltd
Latrobe Community Health Service Limited
Merri Community Health Services Limited (Trading as Merri Health)
Nexus Primary Health
Nillumbik Community Health Service Ltd
North Richmond Community Health Limited
Northern District Community Health
Primary Care Connect
Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health
Sunraysia Community Health Services Limited
Darebin Community Health Service (Trading as Your Community Health)
Ensay Bush Nursing Centre
Update your details
If the ANMF and your employer do not have matching correct details you will not get to vote with your ANMF member colleagues to support taking protected industrial action. This is because the ANMF must provide a list of members to the ballot agent, and each employer must provide a list of their employees who would be covered by the new EBA. Only those who appear on both lists will get to vote.
This can be tricky if, for example, your ANMF membership is under your married name, and your employer records are under your pre-married name. This is why it is critically important that you login to the member portal to check the contact details we have on file, and update them if required. Equally as important is to then ensure that your employer has the same correct details.
The details that must match include surname, first name, middle name, date of birth, work email, private email, mobile, postal address and if you work for more than one public sector employer.
The more ANMF members who participate, the more likely we will achieve a better outcome.
