Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group About 30,000 nurses, healthcare assistants and midwives at public hospitals across New Zealand held an eight-hour strike on June 9 to demand a decent pay offer and safe levels of staffing. Thousands of healthcare .
About 30,000 public healthcare workers went on strike for the second time in three years, against the Labour Party-led government’s pay freeze and dangerous levels of understaffing.
About 30,000 nurses in New Zealand walked off their jobs on Wednesday in a nationwide eight-hour strike after negotiations with the government for better pay and working conditions failed.
Thirty-thousand nurses go on strike in New Zealand for better pay
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Thirty-thousand nurses go on strike in New Zealand for better pay
Reuters / Jun 9, 2021, 10:06 IST
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About 30,000 nurses in New Zealand went on strike for for better pay. (REUTERS)
WELLINGTON: About 30,000 nurses in New Zealand walked off their jobs on Wednesday in a nationwide eight-hour strike after negotiations with the government for better pay and working conditions failed.
The strike action came after the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) rejected a 1.4% pay hike proposed by the District Health Board earlier this week. The government says the nurses demands amounted to a 17% increase that it can t afford, but pledged to continue negotiations.