Health and Community Services Union (HACSU)

Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) Victoria's only specialist union for disability, mental health and alcohol & drug services. Authorised by Paul Healey, State Secretary

24/09/2025

HACSU labubu invites all HACSU members under 35 to Frontline 3: HYWC Movie Night 📽️🍿✊

Join us on Wednesday 8 October 6:30pm at the HACSU office in Carlton for a screening of the documentary Union. This event is totally free, but registrations are essential. Bring a friend from work along, engage in a guided discussion after the film, plus food and drinks provided! 🎉

🎟️Register your spot now: https://buff.ly/G4Myjen

22/09/2025

What does it take to get a response from the MPs that are meant to represent us? Tony Dunn, has written almost 400 emails over the past month, with no response from State or Federal Labor MPs. ✊

Right now, group homes are being closed across Victoria as funding from the State Government dries up. The government has a duty of care as the provider of last resort to all Victorians. So why are they intent on waiting until disaster strikes before they decide to take action? 💔

HACSU members need to act now and continue the fight! Follow this link to write to your MP today: www.savedisability.org ✍️

🦺💜🧡

It's 100 days until the end of the State government subsidy of Victoria's transferred Disability services. With no answe...
22/09/2025

It's 100 days until the end of the State government subsidy of Victoria's transferred Disability services. With no answers from the State or Federal governments about the future of our sector, it's clear participants and workers will be hung out to dry as the New Year begins. 💔

Now is the time to take action, visit our new website to get involved in the campaign: https://www.savedisability.org/ ✊

Time is running out! When will the government start taking serious action to stop this crisis from unfolding before it's too late? 😡

🦺💜🧡

Calling all HACSU members under 35! 📣 The HACSU Young Workers Collective are screening the 2024 documentary Union, follo...
19/09/2025

Calling all HACSU members under 35! 📣

The HACSU Young Workers Collective are screening the 2024 documentary Union, following the incredible campaign to unionise Amazon's JFK8 warehouse - and you're invited. ✊

Join us on Wednesday 8 October at the HACSU office in Carlton. This event is totally free, but registrations are essential. Bring a friend from Disability, Mental Health or AOD along, engage in a guided discussion after the film, with food and drinks provided. 🍿🥤

Registrations are now open, follow this link: https://buff.ly/G4Myjen

18/09/2025

Healthscope is restructuring – and it could cost you.

They’re setting up a new not-for-profit called PurposeCo, which should mean access to salary packaging benefits for workers.

But instead of passing those benefits on, Healthscope wants to keep 90% for itself – leaving just 10% for employees.

That’s not fair, and it’s not what this benefit was meant for.

They need your vote to make it happen.

🗳️ Vote NO to protect your entitlements.
💬 Talk to your colleagues.
✊ Join the HSU and stand up for fairness.

Read more: https://hsu.net.au/portfolio/hsu-urges-members-to-vote-no-to-healthscopes-new-salary-packaging-proposal/

Contact your HSU branch with any questions.

18/09/2025

It's a grim countdown to the end of the government's $2.1 billion subsidy to protect Disability worker's hard-fought-for wages and conditions. Yet there are no answers in sight from the State or Commonwealth government about the future of Disability. Blandthorn why do you refuse to act and protect the thousands of vulnerable Victorian’s at risk! 😠

The government has a moral obligation to take urgent action to support vulnerable participants and essential workers. So why won't they answer and take responsibility for Disability before the sector collapses? 💔

✊ 🦺💜🧡

16/09/2025

YEEEAHHH!! 🐎 HACSU members at Forensicare are still fighting for the safety and conditions they deserve. We're having a stop work this Thursday from 1 to 3pm at T. H. Westfield Reserve (cnr Yarra Bend and Heidelberg Roads). 🛣️ 🤠

Bring your cowboy hats, campaign t-shirts, banners, flags, and any comrades who are free to attend. The more people, the more power! ✊ 💙 💛

Attention Healthscope Nurses! 🚨 HACSU are holding an important online meeting to discuss your new EBA – and Healthscope’...
15/09/2025

Attention Healthscope Nurses! 🚨

HACSU are holding an important online meeting to discuss your new EBA – and Healthscope’s plan to pocket your future salary packaging entitlements. 💸

The more HACSU members who stay engaged, informed, and active, the better the result we can achieve in your new agreement! 💪 💫

Meeting happening 7:30pm, Tuesday 16 September. Email kimg@hacsu.asn.au for meeting link. 🔗

12/09/2025

Recently, David Ettershank MLC Ettershank MP directly addressed the impending Disability sector crisis in Victorian parliament, calling out the inaction of the Allan Labor government. ✊

After the Victorian Government privatised Supported Independent Living (SIL) services 8 years ago, they provided a subsidy to protect the wages and conditions that HACSU members had fought for over decades. In 110 days that subsidy ends, and we are still no closer to answers from the State or Commonwealth governments about the future of Disability. ❤️‍🩹

This issue isn’t just about policy, it’s about vulnerable participants being forced out of their homes, workers who have cared for them for years being made redundant, and families being left with nowhere to turn. Without proper funding there will be dire consequences for thousands of Victorians and the whole system will collapse. HACSU urges the government to take serious action and commit to upholding the Gold Standard for Disability. 🦺💜🧡

Today is R U OK? Day. We wanted to take a moment to recognise that this year has been one of the most intense and heavy ...
11/09/2025

Today is R U OK? Day.

We wanted to take a moment to recognise that this year has been one of the most intense and heavy years in recent bargaining history for all HACSU members.

We stand with our members today and every day to advocate for their rights and even when times are tough we will never stop fighting for a brighter future.✊

Don't forget our EAP service, Hunterlink, is available to all HACSU members for free 24/7 access to counselling and mental health support. We know not everyone is ok so it's even more important that everyone feels confident asking others R U OK?

10/09/2025

If you weren’t aware of the impending crisis happening in Disability care in Victoria, you will be soon. ⏰🛑💔

Time is running out. Disability Houses are closing at an alarming rate. 80% of service providers are at market failure. This is an issue affecting thousands of vulnerable Victorian participants and their families. 🚨‼️

Stand with HACSU today and sign our petition demanding real action from the government! 🆘🔗🫨

https://www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/protect-wages-and-conditions-for-disability-employees

09/09/2025

Nice to meet with Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) disability members, led by State Secretary Paul Healey, during their recent visit to Canberra to discuss the challenges facing the disability sector.

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