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Health and Community Services Union

HACSU is one of Tasmania's largest unions representing members employed in all areas of the health and community services industries. HACSU members are employed at over 450 worksites across the State.

HACSU's main aim is to improve the working lives of its members by negotiating improvements in wages and conditions and protecting workers rights.

To achieve this aim HACSU is organised so that members have a genuine voice in their workplace and have real control of the issues that affect their working lives. Members experience shows that many issues can only be satisfactorily resolved when members themselves come together as a group and support each other. This involvement of members working together is helped through the election of worksite representatives as follows:

• Workplace delegates (individual members in workplaces who have been nominated and elected by other members as their representative in that workplace).

• HACSU Worksite Committees (a group of members in a particular workplace who have been nominated and elected by other members in that workplace) that meet regularly as a group to discuss issues raised by members and determine the best way to deal with the issue.

• Nurse Sub Branch Executive (a group of Nurse members from various workplaces across the State who have been nominated and elected by Nurse members) who meet regularly to discuss issues that affect the Nursing members.

• Ambulance Sub Branch Executive (a group of Ambulance members from various workplaces around the State who have been nominated and elected by Ambulance members) who meet regularly to discuss issues that affect Ambulance Officers.

• Health Professionals Sub Branch Executive (a group of Public Sector Health Professionals who have been nominated and elected by public sector Health Professionals) who meet regularly to discuss issues that affect Health Professionals.

• Disability Sub Branch Executive (a group of members employed in the Disability Services in both the Public and Private sector nominated and elected by Disability members) who meet regularly to discuss issues that affect employees in the Disability Sector.

HACSU supports members with training and has a full time Training Officer to help members gain the skills to become more involved in HACSU.

HACSU also researches particular issues that members have identified as being important to their industry or workplace.

It is only through the participation of members that we as a Union can continue to work on issues that are important to members and improve our working conditions.

Our rules also provide for the election every four years of the State Secretary, Assistant State Secretary and the HACSU Committee of Management (a group of members from various worksites who are responsible for the overall management of the Union).