Empowering health workers for a brighter future
With 45,000+ 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 45,000 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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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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Public Health
Let's Get It Fixed
Our Public Health Awards are broken and outdated.
We need a complete overhaul to get the system working for health workers and for the community.
Stay Informed
Our Latest News & Articles
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020The International Year of Health & Care Workers
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared 2021 the ‘International Year of Health & Care Workers’. All HSU members – from our pathology...
January 5, 2021
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020A message from the Secretary
We approach the end of another year – one that will be recorded in history as exposing the fragility of our health, relationships, anxieties, patience, and economy....
December 1, 2020
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020Assistant Secretary Report
As the year 2020 draws to a close, I feel that this is an opportunity to reflect back on the year that was. This year has...
December 1, 2020
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020HSU Win: Nauseous Linen Allowance at Calvary Riverina
A few months ago, an HSU member at Calvary Riverina Private Hospital looked at their payslip and noticed something wrong. Not only was their payslip missing the...
December 1, 2020
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020Allied Health Professionals Day
Allied Health Professionals Day was held on Wednesday, 14 October 2020. For an entire week, the Health Services Union focused on celebrating, appreciating and acknowledging the hard work that allied...
December 1, 2020
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020Laverty Pathology Back Pay
HSU members at Laverty Pathology have endured a long and bitter back pay struggle to bring a very recalcitrant employer back into line – and they did it...
December 1, 2020
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020Free Parking Canterbury Hospital
HSU members have campaigned long and hard for free parking for health workers. We firmly believe that if you work in a hospital you shouldn’t have to pay to...
December 1, 2020
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020Healthshare Shoe Allowance Protest
This year has been tough for HSU members. With the NSW Liberal Government and the Industrial Relations Commission effectively freezing the wages of health workers at the height...
December 1, 2020
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020The Health Services Union Indigenous Development Fund
Our union is committed to supporting the work being done by local Indigenous community groups and organisations to enhance the health and wellbeing of their communities....
December 1, 2020
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020International Pathology Day
On the 11th November 2020, we celebrated the health workers that have been behind the scenes of the COVID-19 pandemic since day one - Pathology workers....
November 30, 2020
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020It's time to drop the Wages Policy
When the entire nation was told to stay at home and quarantine, health workers were continuing on the frontlines, serving the community and risking their own...
November 30, 2020
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Unified Magazine: Summer 2020Windfall for Ramsay Theatre Assistants
Over the past 12 months, the HSU has successfully regraded more than 25 Theatre Assistants across Ramsay Health who were incorrectly classified and underpaid as Wardspersons....
November 30, 2020
