Empowering health workers for a brighter future
With 47,000+ members across NSW, ACT and QLD, you’re in good company!
Why join the HSU?
Being a union member is one of the best decisions you can make in your working life.
If you work in health, there's never been a better time to stand with 47,000 workers across NSW, ACT & QLD in the fight for better wages and conditions for all health workers!
HSU members are what makes our union special and strong
It's the active involvement of HSU members that determines our direction and whether we succeed or fail.
Are you an existing member? Need some help or guidance, or keen to become more involved in the Union? Or a you an activist or delegate searching for more resources?
Our Latest Campaigns
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Ambulance
Value Our Service
The Ambulance Division of the HSU is fighting for a pay rise for NSW Paramedics that is in line with the value of their service. As…
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Hospitals - We Won!
Free parking for health workers
The HSU has campaigned long and hard for free parking for health care workers. We firmly believe that if you work in a hospital you shouldn't…
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Aged Care
We're Worth It
Aged care professionals deserve more than the scraps. They deserve a decent pay rise and we are going to fight for fair wages in aged care.
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Aged Care
Delivering Decent Residential Aged Care
Funding the care elderly Australians deserve: A report into the challenges confronting residential aged care in Australia, including those confronting the aged care workforce, and an…
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Our Latest News & Articles
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Unified Magazine: Spring 2021HSU challenges secondary employment ban
The HSU has quashed an attempt to undermine a member’s rights in an important test case for the aged care sector. In response…
October 25, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Spring 2021Organising in the age of Covid
Union organising has always been about the groundwork. The classic organising model is based on fronting up to worksites and engaging with members face-to-face. The HSU…
October 25, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Spring 2021Work woes at Wyong
The current pandemic has necessitated a lot of changes in all of our lives. Schedules, travel, working processes: we’ve had to adapt so many things about…
October 21, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Spring 2021Big win for Blacktown hospital sterilising and food services
Members at Blacktown Hospital have made a significant step to combat understaffing and unsafe working conditions. Approaching the problem methodically as a group, and with the…
October 21, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Spring 2021
In the workplace: A WHS case study from food services
Not long ago, members working in Food Services at Canberra Hospital raised concerns about the ‘ware washer’ at their site. Unfortunately, the washer was not functioning…
October 19, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Spring 202150,000 Reasons to Vaccinate for Victory
To show our appreciation for members who have taken the step to protect their workmates and communities by vaccinating against COVID-19, the HSU has launched the…
October 19, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Spring 2021Change aged care
$10 billion per year. That is the amount of funding it would take for the Federal Government to implement the recommendations of the Aged Care Royal…
October 19, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Spring 2021Grace under pressure
HSU members have been doing extraordinary work on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, putting themselves in harm’s way to help those suffering and stop…
October 19, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Spring 2021
Disability Update
It’s been an incredibly busy two months for HSU members working in the Disability Sector. COVID has seen Disability workers responding to multiple…
October 19, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Spring 2021Pathology members get a voice at work
Pathology workers at Sullivan Nicolaides in Brisbane have made the first step towards having a union voice in the workplace. HSU Organiser Melissa…
October 19, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Spring 2021Members win big in private health
Shalisa Zattin: Shalisa Zattin joined the Health Services Union at the start of 2020,…
October 19, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Autumn 2021A message from the Secretary
As I write to you, I’m filled with pride for the efforts of HSU members over the last year. This dreadful pandemic and everything it brought…
March 9, 2021
