Mater Health Services claims to offer “compassionate service to the sick and needy”.

But the way Mater Public Hospital is treating its nurses and midwives, you wouldn’t know it.

By putting nurses and midwives through drawn-out negotiations and expensive legal battles instead of passing on a taxpayer-funded pay increase, Mater management is acting in a way which hinders Mater’s delivery of compassionate service to the sick and needy.

QNU nurses and midwives at Mater have called on the Mater Board of Directors to intervene. To date the Mater Board has refused to respond to our calls for action.

The Mater Public Hospital QNU Branch has now passed a vote of no confidence in Mater CEO John O’Donnell.

Mr O’Donnell and the Mater Board of Directors have shown they are unwilling to pass on taxpayer funds, nor will they explain what they are doing with this money – money that is not theirs.

Mater Public Hospital nurses and midwives haven’t received a payrise in three years. They are now being asked to give up working conditions like continuing professional development allowance, long service leave, and maternity leave, while giving Mater the ability to force them into redundancy or redeployment elsewhere.

All this in return for a taxpayer funded wage increase.

Sign the petition below to show your support for Mater's nurses and midwives, and to call on Health Minister Lawrence Springborg to urgently intervene and resolve this dispute.