IEA Editorial and Research Fellow Len Shackleton has been quoted in The Daily Mail responding to news that striking a striking nurses’ union has been advertising Australian jobs to its members while complaining of chronic staff shortages.

Len was quoted:

“It seems ironic that, when a new RCN document has just documented a severe workforce shortage, the union is advertising nursing opportunities abroad,”

Len also warned that continued industrial action may cause backlogs which drive more nurses abroad, saying:

“If we have a long-drawn out industrial dispute with striking nurses losing pay and work piling up as worried patients experience delays, these opportunities may seem even more attractive,”

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