Dear Jen and others interested.
If we midwives were to withdraw from ANF en masse and join another union,
making a clear and loud statement that ANF did not represent midwives, then
we would have stymied their attempts to silence us and keep us under the
nursing umbrella. HACSU in Tasmania already has about a third of nurses
(some of whom are midwives) in their union and ANF is forced to collaborate
with them. Surely we could find another Australia wide health services
union to take us in, especially since we have 72,000 registered midwives
Australia wide. If only one quarter of these decided to make that
statement, then ANF would be stuffed as far as making policy statements
about midwives is concerned.
Just a thought. Trish
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