(MB TIMES) – A union that represents about 9000 Queensland nurses has launched a fighting fund to challenge the state’s mandatory jabs policy.
Thursday marks the first deadline for Queensland Health staff who care for patients to have had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. And they must be fully vaccinated by October 31. The dominant and long-established Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union, which has about 62,000 members, is actively encouraging its members to get vaccinated.
But its much smaller rival, the Nurses’ Professional Association of Queensland says the mandatory jabs policy could drive away frontline workers and cripple the health system. It has launched a public fundraising campaign to bankroll “key legal fights” in support of nurses it says should not have to choose between a jab and a job.
