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New Zealand Nurses Prepare More Strikes As Healthcare Crisis Worsens

  About 30,000 nurses, healthcare assistants and midwives in public hospitals around New Zealand voted earlier this month to hold another three nationwide strikes. The members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) held an eight-hour strike on June 9 after rejecting a derisory pay rise offer of just 1.38 percent. The District Health Boards’ offer was effectively a pay cut relative to inflation and contained nothing to address the staffing crisis in hospitals. The Labour Party-led government announced a wage freeze in May for the next three years for the vast majority of public sector employees, including healthcare workers and teachers. The government is imposing severe austerity measures to make

Senior doctors plan stopwork meetings after months of contract negotiations

A total of about 30 meetings would take place, running till August 13. Each stopwork would last no longer than two hours and while some smaller DHBs would only have one meeting, others would have multiple for logistical reasons, she said. Meanwhile, the country s largest nurses union is in mediation with the DHBs to settle a dispute over pay claims and avert a series of strikes planned across the country. Last week, New Zealand Nurses Organisation members voted in favour of three strikes; for 24 hours on July 29, eight hours on August 19, and 24 hours on September 9. RNZ RNZ podcast The Detail explores why nurses walked off the job en masse in response to understaffing, while District Health Boards scramble to stop more strikes.

New Zealand nurses prepare more strikes as healthcare crisis worsens

New Zealand nurses prepare more strikes as healthcare crisis worsens About 30,000 nurses, healthcare assistants and midwives in public hospitals around New Zealand voted earlier this month to hold another three nationwide strikes. The members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) held an eight-hour strike on June 9 after rejecting a derisory pay rise offer of just 1.38 percent. The District Health Boards’ offer was effectively a pay cut relative to inflation and contained nothing to address the staffing crisis in hospitals. The Labour Party-led government announced a wage freeze in May for the next three years for the vast majority of public sector employees, including healthcare workers and teachers. The government is imposing severe austerity measures to make workers shoulder the burden of the economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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