Hi Trish, re ANF and midwifery membership.
We need to be aware that ANF has many midwives as members, this number is
much greater number than the 3000 or so that are members of ACMI. ANF could
assert representation of midwifery practitioners in Australia that would
challange ACMI in that role. Can we sit at the table and work something out
with ANF?? I would hesitate to be adversial.
Also I would not cherish the thought of midwifery practitioners not being
covered by an industrial body without clout in the health industry.
Just some thoughts
Irene Coonan
Corporate Services Manager
----- Original Message -----
From: Trish David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 9:10 AM
Subject: unions and midwifery
> 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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