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Nurses have voted to strike for an eight-hour period in a month s time over a breakdown in pay offer negotiations. Source: istock.com
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation, which has 30,000 members working in district health boards (DHB), says members are angry at the first DHB pay offer last month and overwhelmingly voted to strike.
The union said the offer would have given most members a 1.38 per cent wage increase, below inflation.
However the district health boards said reducing it to that is an oversimplification, and many nurses would receive much larger increases. They say offered increases are between 1 and 11 per cent over the 27 month term of the agreement, and include a lump sump payment of $900.
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1pm: DHB nurses vote to strike over pay, horrific and unsafe staffing About 30,000 hospital nurses from around the country– 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. Read more here.
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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Media release from the New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Friday 14 May 2021, 01:00 PM
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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) will be issuing strike notices to the country’s district health boards (DHBs) after its 30,000 members who work in DHBs voted overwhelmingly in favour of an eight-hour strike on 9 June.
Lead Advocate and NZNO Industrial Advisor David Wait said voter turnout was very high and that he was extremely pleased by the unity shown by members participating in the ballot which closed yesterday at Noon. Members are angry and frustrated at the first DHB offer received last month. That would have given most members little more than 1.38 percent, just under the rate of inflation. This is despite the incredible sacrifices they made in 2020 to keep the country safe from COVID-19.
Press Release – NZNO The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) will be issuing strike notices to the countrys district health boards (DHBs) after its 30,000 members who work in DHBs voted overwhelmingly in favour of an eight-hour strike on 9 June. Lead Advocate and …
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) will be issuing strike notices to the country’s district health boards (DHBs) after its 30,000 members who work in DHBs voted overwhelmingly in favour of an eight-hour strike on 9 June.
Lead Advocate and NZNO Industrial Advisor David Wait said voter turnout was very high and that he was extremely pleased by the unity shown by members participating in the ballot which closed yesterday at Noon.