IAM Healthcare and pharmacy labour activists have initiated a new worker empowerment project to help pharmacies unionise over unsafe staffing levels and
increasing workloads.
The campaign is coined "The Pharmacy Guild" to establish higher standards of practice in pharmacies to protect patients.
The union issued a mission statement on Wednesday (8 November) highlighting three major demands and goals.
They demanded that "staffing and workload standards should be set up to ensure safe patient care."
There should be "representation and collective bargaining for pharmacy professionals in workplaces across the country."