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Hospital midwives across the country to strike next week

Midwifery Employee Representation and Advisory Service spokeswoman Caroline Conroy said very few midwives will be able to walk off the job, given the requirement to maintain life-preserving services. About 95 per cent of midwives will be required to provide life-preserving services throughout strike action, she said. Conroy said midwives are “really disappointed” to be striking, but “our hands are tied”. KELLY HODEL/STUFF/Waikato Times MERAS union members marching in Hamilton in 2019. She said they are effectively asking for an additional $800 a year per midwife. The midwifery multi-employer collective agreement expired on January 31, but negotiations have failed so far. The planned strike action will trigger “urgent mediation”. If still unresolved by August 19, there will be another day of industrial action, this time for 12 hours, the union website says.

Nursing union, DHBs at odds over impact of Employment Court action

Nurses during their previous strike action in early June. Photo: RNZ / Nick Munro Meanwhile, the DHBs deny taking the NZNO to court is antagonistic, insisting their relationship remains good. Yesterday nurses formally declared they would walk off the job again in two weeks, after rejecting the latest pay offer from the DHBs. In response, the DHBs are taking nurses to the Employment Court, accusing them of not doing enough to guarantee safe staffing levels during their strike. DHBs spokesperson Jim Green told Morning Report the court action was specifically about the life preserving services agreement, around wanting to have certainty about when we negotiate those agreements that the staff agreed to be provided will be provided .

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