Victorian nurses and midwives have rejected a renewed pay offer from the state government.
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The union's leaders struck an in-principle agreement with the government last week, but it was rejected by members at a meeting at Melbourne's Festival Hall on Monday afternoon.
Thousands of members will continue stage one of their industrial action, which includes wearing union T-shirts at work, refusing to work overtime and not completing paperwork.
Members on Friday closed one in four hospital beds and cancelled some surgeries for about eight hours because the industrial dispute.
Details of the most recent offer had not been made public before the meeting.
The federation previously rejected a three per cent pay rise with an annual $1500 payment.
Several other prominent unions are negotiating agreements and have staged industrial action in the past 12 months.
The state's ambulance union remains locked in negotiations over its new deal and is in the first stage of industrial action, with members due to vote on additional action in coming weeks.
Regional train line workers staged more than half a dozen strikes earlier this year while speed camera operators who work for Serco walked off the job for 24 hours in January.
The police association called off action in late 2023 after the force committed to addressing shift lengths and ticked off a 1.75 per cent "goodwill" pay rise, with negotiations continuing this year.
The Victorian government has capped pay rises across the public sector at three per cent.
Australian Associated Press
