Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
9 April 2021
Pakistan: Striking Balochistan government workers block major highways
Ignoring calls from authorities to return to work, thousands of government workers in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province, are continuing their struggle for a 25 percent across the board pay increase and the same allowances paid in other provinces. On Monday the strikers, including health and education workers, enforced a virtual cut-off of Balochistan from the rest of the country with a blockade of the main highways.
A sit-down protest was held outside the provincial assembly in the capital Quetta with other demonstrations held across the province. Education workers have said they will boycott high-school exams scheduled to begin on April 10. A polio vaccination campaign due this week was also postponed as workers conducting mobile vaccination campaigns joined the strike.
Covid 19 coronavirus: New Zealand s vaccine rollout a shambles , rest home boss says
10 Apr, 2021 12:07 AM
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Chris Bishop revealed the leaked information saying it shows that New Zealand is 300,000 vaccines behind schedule. Video / Parliament TV
Chris Bishop revealed the leaked information saying it shows that New Zealand is 300,000 vaccines behind schedule. Video / Parliament TV
RNZ Shambolic is how one rest home boss is describing the Covid-19 and influenza vaccines rollout.
Aged-care residents and workers are in the priority two category and, according to the Government s timetable, are supposed to start getting their Covid-19 vaccines from March.
On Thursday, the Aged Care Association told RNZ the Government needed to give some certainty around dates.
New Zealand nears 100,000 vaccine dose milestone.
OPINION: We ve been celebrating a few anniversaries recently, as a nation – not many of them very welcome ones. Six weeks ago, it was exactly one year since the first confirmed Covid-19 case on New Zealand soil; this Friday, a year since (almost) everyone entering the country faced spending two weeks watching YouTube videos and modifying their fitness routine to fit inside a managed isolation hotel room. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment celebrated with a press release on Friday that, rightly, paid homage to the thousands of frontline workers who ve helped keep the rest of us safe.
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