Thousands of Australian workers across the health sector will walk off the job on Thursday in a state-wide strike across New South Wales (NSW), demanding a higher pay rise. Health Services Union (HSU) said that with the latest inflation figures at 3.5 percent and expected to rise, health and hospital workers needed a pay rise higher than 2.5 percent. The NSW government has a wages cap of 2.5 percent for its public servants, meaning it cannot legally increase the wages of health workers past the cap. Health and hospital workers across ambulance, cleaning, admin, security, and allied health will be calling for the government to remove the cap and begin bargaining for pay rises. “Everything is going up except their pay,” HSU NSW Secretary Gerard Hayes said: “Health and hospital workers are sick of mealy-mouthed rhetoric. We don’t need another politician thanking us for being heroes of the pandemic, we …