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Covid 19 coronavirus: Nurses strikes during vaccine rollout possible - union
9 Mar, 2021 06:42 AM
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New Zealand has secured an extra 8.5 million does of Pfizer s Covid vaccine - enough for every New Zealander, the Government says.
New Zealand has secured an extra 8.5 million does of Pfizer s Covid vaccine - enough for every New Zealander, the Government says.
RNZ
The NZ Nurses Organisation will not rule out strike action during the mass Covid-19 vaccine rollout if it is unable to reach an agreement on satisfactory pay agreements, it says.
The Government revealed yesterday that it has bought enough Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines for the whole country and is hoping to reach herd immunity levels by the end of the year.
Nine hundred vaccinators have been trained to give the Pfizer injection, but the Ministry of Health wants up to 3000 extra full-time immunisers for the mass vaccine rollout, and most of them are likely to be nurses.
Nurses Organisation industrial manager Glenda Alexander says it will be a big ask to rally that many people. There s a real effort being put into finding people with suitable qualifications, and even some of my colleagues who don t work as nurses at the moment have been exploring whether or not they would be able to do some of that work as well.
Alexander said prerequisites to administer a vaccine injection would include health sector work experience, but full training is provided.