#midwives — Public Fediverse posts
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I stand with #NHS midwives
Across our NHS, #midwives are routinely working shifts without rest breaks.
- Many are signed up to opt out of the #Working Time #Regulations, not freely, but because speaking up feels impossible.
- #Clinical #errors linked to #fatigue are not rare #accidents, they are what happens when a system asks too much of too few people for too long.
Sign:
https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-i-stand-with-nhs-midwives-855842e35f5c5600
#SaveOurNHS #ToxicLabour #ToxicReform #ToxicTories #WorkHours
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I stand with #NHS midwives
Across our NHS, #midwives are routinely working shifts without rest breaks.
- Many are signed up to opt out of the #Working Time #Regulations, not freely, but because speaking up feels impossible.
- #Clinical #errors linked to #fatigue are not rare #accidents, they are what happens when a system asks too much of too few people for too long.
Sign:
https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-i-stand-with-nhs-midwives-855842e35f5c5600
#SaveOurNHS #ToxicLabour #ToxicReform #ToxicTories #WorkHours
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I stand with #NHS midwives
Across our NHS, #midwives are routinely working shifts without rest breaks.
- Many are signed up to opt out of the #Working Time #Regulations, not freely, but because speaking up feels impossible.
- #Clinical #errors linked to #fatigue are not rare #accidents, they are what happens when a system asks too much of too few people for too long.
Sign:
https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-i-stand-with-nhs-midwives-855842e35f5c5600
#SaveOurNHS #ToxicLabour #ToxicReform #ToxicTories #WorkHours
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I stand with #NHS midwives
Across our NHS, #midwives are routinely working shifts without rest breaks.
- Many are signed up to opt out of the #Working Time #Regulations, not freely, but because speaking up feels impossible.
- #Clinical #errors linked to #fatigue are not rare #accidents, they are what happens when a system asks too much of too few people for too long.
Sign:
https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-i-stand-with-nhs-midwives-855842e35f5c5600
#SaveOurNHS #ToxicLabour #ToxicReform #ToxicTories #WorkHours
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I stand with #NHS midwives
Across our NHS, #midwives are routinely working shifts without rest breaks.
- Many are signed up to opt out of the #Working Time #Regulations, not freely, but because speaking up feels impossible.
- #Clinical #errors linked to #fatigue are not rare #accidents, they are what happens when a system asks too much of too few people for too long.
Sign:
https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-i-stand-with-nhs-midwives-855842e35f5c5600
#SaveOurNHS #ToxicLabour #ToxicReform #ToxicTories #WorkHours
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/21251/ Midwifery ‘propped up by goodwill and misogyny’ says NHS midwife #birth #EMPLOYMENT #funding #Health #healthcare #jobs #MARTERNITY #MIDWIFERY #MIDWIVES #nhs #SarahJaneMee #SJM #SkyNews #STAFFING #UKNews #UKPolitics #UKTONIGHT #unemployment #WESTMINSTER #work
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#Midwives are #vital to #healthy #mothers and #babies, #reproductive #freedom, and the #resilience of #healthcare #systems. And yet they are #vastly #underfunded and #under #supported. #reproductiverights #reproductivefreedom #reproductivejustice #feminism
https://www.unfpa.org/events/international-day-midwife -
#Midwives are #vital to #healthy #mothers and #babies, #reproductive #freedom, and the #resilience of #healthcare #systems. And yet they are #vastly #underfunded and #under #supported. #reproductiverights #reproductivefreedom #reproductivejustice #feminism
https://www.unfpa.org/events/international-day-midwife -
#Midwives are #vital to #healthy #mothers and #babies, #reproductive #freedom, and the #resilience of #healthcare #systems. And yet they are #vastly #underfunded and #under #supported. #reproductiverights #reproductivefreedom #reproductivejustice #feminism
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#Midwives work in teams as the main healthcare provider for women & babies during: 🤰🏻 pregnancy 🤱🏻 childbirth 👩👧👦 the postnatal period
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Industrial disputes & news - 4 February 2026
Victorian #teachers; Tasmanian public sector; Victorian public #healthcareworkers; Harry Hartog & Berkelouw Books; UWU elections; SA #nurses & #midwives; Dynelec; Crown Sydney; SA public sector & more
(Thanks Sarah Missen)https://disputesreport.substack.com/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-4-february
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Industrial disputes & news - 17 December 2025
SA public sector workers; Tassie #teachers; Harry Hartog & Berkelouw Books; #KeolisDowner; SA #nurses & #midwives; #AmbulanceVictoria; #FreoCranes; #MSS; #Bechtel; #Healthscope; #VAHPA; #DHLExpress & more(Thanks Sarah Missen)
https://disputesreport.substack.com/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-17-december -
Industrial disputes & news - 17 December 2025
SA public sector workers; Tassie #teachers; Harry Hartog & Berkelouw Books; #KeolisDowner; SA #nurses & #midwives; #AmbulanceVictoria; #FreoCranes; #MSS; #Bechtel; #Healthscope; #VAHPA; #DHLExpress & more(Thanks Sarah Missen)
https://disputesreport.substack.com/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-17-december -
Industrial disputes & news - 17 December 2025
SA public sector workers; Tassie #teachers; Harry Hartog & Berkelouw Books; #KeolisDowner; SA #nurses & #midwives; #AmbulanceVictoria; #FreoCranes; #MSS; #Bechtel; #Healthscope; #VAHPA; #DHLExpress & more(Thanks Sarah Missen)
https://disputesreport.substack.com/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-17-december -
Industrial disputes & news - 17 December 2025
SA public sector workers; Tassie #teachers; Harry Hartog & Berkelouw Books; #KeolisDowner; SA #nurses & #midwives; #AmbulanceVictoria; #FreoCranes; #MSS; #Bechtel; #Healthscope; #VAHPA; #DHLExpress & more(Thanks Sarah Missen)
https://disputesreport.substack.com/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-17-december -
Did you know some animals, from primates to rodents, have their own “midwives” helping with birth? 😮🐀🐒 #midwife #midwifery #midwives #animals #amazinganimals
“Midwifery” in the Animal King... -
Industrial disputes & news
- 5 November 2025
#InfraBuild #GenesisCare University of Newcastle; Keolis Downer; #CDC; Curtin Uni; QLD #teachers City of Salisbury; #DHLExpress #Bloomfield SA #nurses #Midwives #VRC #Cocacola #HealthScope and more(THANKS SARAH MISSEN)
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-5-november?
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Industrial disputes & news
- 5 November 2025
#InfraBuild #GenesisCare University of Newcastle; Keolis Downer; #CDC; Curtin Uni; QLD #teachers City of Salisbury; #DHLExpress #Bloomfield SA #nurses #Midwives #VRC #Cocacola #HealthScope and more(THANKS SARAH MISSEN)
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-5-november?
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Industrial disputes & news
- 5 November 2025
#InfraBuild #GenesisCare University of Newcastle; Keolis Downer; #CDC; Curtin Uni; QLD #teachers City of Salisbury; #DHLExpress #Bloomfield SA #nurses #Midwives #VRC #Cocacola #HealthScope and more(THANKS SARAH MISSEN)
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-5-november?
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Industrial disputes & news
- 5 November 2025
#InfraBuild #GenesisCare University of Newcastle; Keolis Downer; #CDC; Curtin Uni; QLD #teachers City of Salisbury; #DHLExpress #Bloomfield SA #nurses #Midwives #VRC #Cocacola #HealthScope and more(THANKS SARAH MISSEN)
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-5-november?
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Industrial disputes & news - 15 October 2025
(Thanks Sarah Missen)
SA #nurses & #midwives; Bucher Municipal; WA & Vic #firefighters; #Aurizon; #MSS; Re.Group; #Glencore; SA & Tas public sectors; CDC; CBH; #Bloomfield; VAHPA/HACSU merger; #JohnHolland; UoN; #Schindlerhttps://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-15-october?
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Industrial disputes & news - 15 October 2025
(Thanks Sarah Missen)
SA #nurses & #midwives; Bucher Municipal; WA & Vic #firefighters; #Aurizon; #MSS; Re.Group; #Glencore; SA & Tas public sectors; CDC; CBH; #Bloomfield; VAHPA/HACSU merger; #JohnHolland; UoN; #Schindlerhttps://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-15-october?
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Industrial disputes & news - 15 October 2025
(Thanks Sarah Missen)
SA #nurses & #midwives; Bucher Municipal; WA & Vic #firefighters; #Aurizon; #MSS; Re.Group; #Glencore; SA & Tas public sectors; CDC; CBH; #Bloomfield; VAHPA/HACSU merger; #JohnHolland; UoN; #Schindlerhttps://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-15-october?
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Industrial disputes & news - 15 October 2025
(Thanks Sarah Missen)
SA #nurses & #midwives; Bucher Municipal; WA & Vic #firefighters; #Aurizon; #MSS; Re.Group; #Glencore; SA & Tas public sectors; CDC; CBH; #Bloomfield; VAHPA/HACSU merger; #JohnHolland; UoN; #Schindlerhttps://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-15-october?
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Industrial disputes & news - 15 October 2025
(Thanks Sarah Missen)
SA #nurses & #midwives; Bucher Municipal; WA & Vic #firefighters; #Aurizon; #MSS; Re.Group; #Glencore; SA & Tas public sectors; CDC; CBH; #Bloomfield; VAHPA/HACSU merger; #JohnHolland; UoN; #Schindlerhttps://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-15-october?
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Industrial disputes & news - 24 September 2025
#Schindler; Keolis Downer; #rspca Townsville City Council; Royal Hobart Hospital; Infrabuild; #Fonterra; CDC; MSS; CBH and SA #nurses & #midwives
(Thanks Sarah Missen)
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-24-september?
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Industrial disputes & news - 13 August 2025
Townsville City Council; Crown; QLD #teachers; KONE; Cairns Council; QLD #nurses & #midwives; CBH; QLD firies; Qantas; Komatsu; Opal; NSW nurses & midwives; Getinge; CFA; Brophy; Glencore & more(Thanks Sarah Missen )
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-13-august?
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Jewish women's folk ritual
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/womensritual/
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Ministers urged to guarantee #NHS jobs for new #midwives amid #understaffing
Student midwife fears she will be unable to get job after 2,300 hrs of unpaid work in NHS calling for guaranteed posts for newly qualified midwives who otherwise are forced to abandon profession before career begin
Aimee Peach is to complete her training next summer, but promise of a job at the end of 3 year degree course collapsed despite severe shortages of midwives
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/20/student-midwife-guaranteed-nhs-jobs-graduates -
Thanks Sarah Missen
Industrial disputes & news - 21 May 2025
QLD #nurses & #midwives; #WestWimmera Shire Council; #Kempe; #RiverinaWater; #Mondiale; #Snowy2.0; #AlliedPinnacle; #BMSCranes; #TWU; #CFMEU ACT & Vic #TAFEshttps://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-21-may?
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The #UniLeipzig-Faculty of Medicine will launch an adaptation course designed to support the professional recognition of #midwives who qualified in non-EU countries. The course is tailored to the individual needs of participants. The adaptation course, run by the Institute for Midwifery Science and Interprofessional #PerinatalMedicine, is the first of its kind in #Saxony. https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetail/artikel/leipzig-university-trains-foreign-midwives-for-the-german-job-market-2025-05-12 Photos: Swen Reichhold, Uni Leipzig
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Queensland #Nurses & #Midwives Union
#EB12 offer from Queensland Health information session Tuesday (6 May)
1️⃣ 3.30pm, register now 👉 https://bit.ly/4k6AC8o2️⃣ 6.00pm, register now 👉 https://bit.ly/42QPmRu
The government threats to #healthworkers backpay if Protected Industrial Action or undertake a formal ballot for Protected Industrial Action. As the government has already seen, we are a powerful force when we act together. 💪
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In the remote Amazon, midwives care for women stranded by drought
Midwife Tabita dos Santos Moraes, 51, touches the belly of Mayleane Melo, 22, to monitor the baby's position, at the Deus e Pai community in Tefe, Amazonas state, Brazil, October 24, 2024. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/brazil-amazon-midwives/
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> In the month of March, 1848, the students and professors, including Clinical Assistant Semmelweis, were busy with the military affairs of the revolution, and the deliveries in the first clinic were left almost entirely to chance and the care of the head midwife. Under this policy of non-interference not a single death occurred in that month...
https://archive.org/details/b28978250/page/n1/mode/2up
#Semmelweis #SemmelweisBook #MidWives -
Looks like Afghanistan government is creating a template for Texas. How far will they go?
#midwives #obstetrics #women
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3l1035nlo -
NO ROOM FOR EMERGENCY
San Francisco’s Biggest Hospital System: “ Don’t Talk About Palestine “
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/19/ucsf-medical-palestine-speech/Healthcare workers of San Francisco Jan. 14, 2024, at the March for Gaza.
A “watermelon” Palestine Solidarity badge.
A die in at the Town Hall#healthworkers #nurses #midwives #UCSF #SanFrancisco #Palestine #Solidarity
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United Workers #Union members at #Woolworths Warehouse sites handling liquor in Victoria, NSW and Queensland are on indefinite #strike
We hear from a #CFMEU organiser who was at the site of a death of a member at a Victorian Wind Farm recently.
We go to the #healthworkers rally for #Nurses and #Midwives that stopped #Sydney CBD on November 13th.Wherever you are, whatever you do there is a union for you !
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/uwu-warehouse-strikes-cfmeu-death-nsw-nurses-out-respect -
ANMF Victoria - St Vincents’ Private
#Nurses and #midwives from #StVincentsPrivate hospitals in #Fitzroy, #EastMelbourne, #Werribee and #Kew are holding a #stopwork meeting and community rally on Thursday (28/11) from 12:45pm. #ANMF members were due to participate in an online meeting on Tuesday (26/11) to prepare for the stop work and discuss a revised offer received from St Vincents. The revised offer adds 6 items; does revise the wage offer down and does not address staffing and ratios.
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NSW nurses and midwives are lowest paid in Australia, yet live and work in the most expensive state.
https://www.nswnma.asn.au/campaigns/ratios4nsw/
#costoflivingcrisis
#labormovement #healthworkers #nurses #midwives #organize #solidarity #unions -
There is pretty much a #GeneralStrike going on in the UK right now.
Who have we had striking/planning to strike so far.
#barristers
#nurses
#trainworkers
#PostalWorkers
#Paramedics
#BorderStaff
#HeathrowStaff
#DrivingExaminers
#JuniorDoctors
#Teachers
#Breweries
#Eurostar
#BusDrivers
#Midwives
#Firefighters
#TrainDriversSomething in the UK is very broken that the system has failed so many people who work in such essential roles.
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