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The Union of Nursesland issued an ultimatom for a wage agreement to the state government, and threatened to allow strike action as soon as possible this week.

The state government and the Union of Queensland nurses and midwives have been locked in negotiations since January.

The state government offered a 8% wage increase for three years. The union has announced 13%demand for more than three years.

QNMU secretary Sarah Beaman, Health, Queensland’s Health Minister Timothy Nicholls until Tuesday, the next week, the industrial actions that were preserved in the 2nd stage until Tuesday to accept that they will act effectively until Tuesday.

“We thought we have made progress in defending the most serious attacks on the existing rights and conditions of the members, but last Thursday everything was torn,” he said.

“On the last day of the talks, the government took the carpet out of us. They said that everything we think was understood to us was suddenly outside the table.”

Beaman said that union members claimed that they were “angry ve and continued to change the government’s position.

“Therefore, Queenland Health’s 55,000 front nurses and midwives officially reported the Minister of Health Tim Nicholls. The gas light stands here. A letter summarizing our demands And on Wednesday, July 2, a deadline was delivered. ”

He said the strike will begin in the week of July 7.

Nurses haven’t been out of work since 2002. They voted to perform the industrial action preserved in early June.

“This is a government who knows the cost of everything outside the value of nothing. The government needs to do better by offering a better EB12 offer,”

“It is also clear that the state budget does not allocate sufficient financing to ensure the wages and conditions of Queensland’s deserves.