Press Release – All District Health Boards District Health Boards are committed to mediation to resolve pay talks, which could avert strike action by the NZ Nurses Organisation on 9 June. No strike notices have been issued at this time. In the event of strike notices DHBs have planning and contingency …
District Health Boards are committed to mediation to resolve pay talks, which could avert strike action by the NZ Nurses Organisation on 9 June.
No strike notices have been issued at this time. In the event of strike notices DHBs have planning and contingency systems to ensure the safety of patients.
DHBs are pleased that a sensible arrangement has been reached with NZNO that their members working in managed isolation and quarantine facilities will not participate in the strike. Furthermore, DHBs do not anticipate that an eight-hour strike will have a significant impact on delivery of the COVID-19 vaccination programme.
Friday, 14 May 2021, 1:26 pm
District Health Boards are committed to mediation
to resolve pay talks, which could avert strike action by the
NZ Nurses Organisation on 9 June.
No strike
notices have been issued at this time. In the event of
strike notices DHBs have planning and contingency systems to
ensure the safety of patients.
DHBs are pleased that a
sensible arrangement has been reached with NZNO that their
members working in managed isolation and quarantine
facilities will not participate in the strike. Furthermore,
DHBs do not anticipate that an eight-hour strike will have a
significant impact on delivery of the COVID-19 vaccination
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7 May 2021
Korea: Renault Samsung autoworkers locked out
Renault Samsung Motors management locked out 1,900 workers at its Busan plant, 450 kilometres south of Seoul, on Tuesday morning. Management initiated the lockout in response to strike action the previous Friday, again on Monday and a planned eight-hour walk out on Tuesday.
The unionised workers voted to take strike action in February, in protest against management demands for a voluntary retirement program, a wage freeze and reduced bonus of 3 million won ($2,700), citing reduced sales due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Workers are demanding a 70,000-won increase in basic pay, a 7 million won bonus and are opposed to the company’s restructuring plans.
But the NZ Nurses Organisation said the proposed changes were risky, badly-timed, and would depend too much on an unregulated, community-based workforce. Manawatū-based union organiser Donna Ryan and professional nurse adviser Wendy Blair said they were concerned about the quality and continuity of care for some 600 clients already in the service. “And the timing is really poor,” said Ryan. The switch to a more community-based service would be phased in over four years, but recently- announced health reforms indicate the district health boards will themselves be gone next year. Ryan said it would seem unwise to persevere with the overhaul in one district in light of the health reforms’ purpose to see health services that were equitable across the regions.
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
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Sri Lanka: State bank workers’ union calls off strike without resolution
The Ceylon Bank Employees Union called off a nationwide strike of state bank employees which had been planned for Thursday. The union made the last-minute cancellation after a discussion with the finance ministry in which an “assurance” was given that the issues in dispute would be dealt with.
Workers are demanding that the state bank revise pensions of employees who joined it after 1996, establish a pension for employees of banks and offer new recruits permanent status after two years of training.