Nurses picketing outside North Shore Hospital. (First published July 2018)
About 30,000 hospital nurses – including ones administering the Covid-19 vaccine – are to go on strike over “horrific and unsafe staffing conditions” and news of no pay rises for three years. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation announced the plan to strike on Friday. More mediation is due on Tuesday and Wednesday but, if it goes ahead, the strike will take place for eight hours on June 9. It comes amidst a nationwide nursing shortage, with nurses and doctors around the country already fearful people will die at over-stretched emergency departments during the busy winter months.
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