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ANF in WA Cuts Fees by 25
ANF Council responds to cost of living pressures while still expanding services
Most ANF members know the ANF fees have not changed for 18 years (not even for inflation) and so it was an extraordinary announcement from the ANF Council in June that ANF fees in WA will be reduced by 25% for the coming financial year.
ANF Assistant Secretary Janet Reah said the Council wanted to let all ANF members know they understood the ever increasing cost of the cost of living pressures and were prepared to do something meaningful about it.
Speaking to the Western Nurse soon after the Council decision Janet says the ANF Council knows that ANF members, like everyone in the community, are looking to cut back on household expenses wherever possible. She says the Council is sending a clear message that they are making it even easier for all nurses and midwives to continue their membership of the ANF in Western Australia during these difficult times.
Janet says there are three important things the ANF can do for members right now - campaign for better wages that at least keep up with inflation, continue to expand the services provided to ANF members keep the ANF fees as low as possible.
“The Council has been keen to do its bit to help with cost of living pressures and so they looked at the financials and noted a much higher than expected income from the Holiday Units during the two years of border closures as well as significant savings generated in a range of other administration areas made it possible to achieve a fee reduction of 25%.”
ANF Vice President and Wickepin Nurse/Midwife Kerry Lee says the Council first looked at whether the services expansion program for 2022 and 2023 would still go ahead with such a significant reduction in membership fees and the answer was a resounding yes.
ANF Councillor Glenda Watson currently working at PCH says her main concern was the ANF still having sufficient funds to conduct its media and industrial campaigns for improvements to wages and conditions.
Kerry Lee
means there is no need to cut anything in the budget for the coming 12 months and there is still plenty of money to run the upcoming Public Sector EBA as well as the current Ramsay EBA campaign and the many other private sector EBA negotiations due in the next 12 months.”
Edgar Enad, currently working at Bethesda Hospitals and elected to the ANF Council in 2018 says he has been privileged to work with a group of nurses and midwives who are always focused on how to best deliver better outcomes for members without increasing costs.
“Even before I joined the ANF Council I was always impressed to see ANF fees staying the same price, year after year, and I would regularly point out to my colleagues around tax time each year this truly a truly remarkable achievement. But going the next big step and actually reducing fees by 25% is just incredible and something you will not see happening in any other organization… ever.”
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Despite ANF fees being less than half of those charged by other unions, the ANF still provides a much bigger range of service to its members. While all unions in WA provide industrial representation at the workplace and during wage negotiations, the chart below demonstrates the massive difference between the ANF and the other unions when it comes to other important services. The ANF offers even more services than listed below, but a comparison just in these key areas still emphasises how nurses, midwives and carers get the best value for membership fees.
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