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10 June 2007
Senior Doctors Announce Unprecedented National
Stopwork Meetings
“Senior doctors will be commencing a full round of unprecedented national stopwork meetings on 17 July which are expected to continue over the following 3-4 weeks,” said Mr
“Never before have senior doctors undertaken national stopwork meetings. They are in response to the continuing impasse in our national collective agreement negotiations which started over a year ago. To date there have been 21 days of negotiation including 7 with a mediator. While we remain committed to mediation, we can’t allow Nero-like health bosses to continue to fiddle while
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“The purpose of the stopwork meetings is to discuss with senior doctors at their workplace the impasse and what further action should be taken to overcome it.”
“Senior doctors are being forced into stopwork meetings by the irresponsible approach of health bosses to our negotiations. We have deliberately given much more notice of the meetings than is legally required in order to minimise inconvenience for patients and to try and make sure that no patient faces the cancellation of scheduled appointments or procedures,” concluded Mr Powell.
Ian Powell
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
