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Watch Little respond here:
Little said he wanted to be very clear that the proposal put to the nurses, was one proposed by the unions, so the deal nurses have rejected is one put to them by their own union.
He said he has heard the complaints of nurses including low staffing and increasing demands on them. The government acknowledges the stress and despair these circumstances have caused and we are committed to fixing it.
He said the latest pay offer would have put an extra $13,000 over the next year alone into the pockets of every full-time employee covered by the collective agreement.
Friday, 30 July 2021, 12:18 pm
I was advised last night that the result of the
ballot of Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa New Zealand
Nurses Organisation members have rejected the latest
proposal to settle their collective agreement.
Let me
be clear: the proposal was one they put to the Government.
The Nurses Organisation rejected their own
proposal.
This morning I want to confirm the details
of the proposal and reaffirm the Government’s commitments
to nurses - and to all New Zealanders who are dependent on
their care - to improve conditions for nurses.
Above
all else I want to say this: I have heard what nurses say
CHRIS SKELTON/Stuff
Emergency Department nurse, Kirstin Ramsay, at the nurses protest outside Christchurch hospital during a strike on June 9 around the country. Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) executive director of nursing, Becky Hickmott, confirmed the DHB had recieved the notice on Friday night. “We recognise the need to strengthen and optimise our patient treatment pathways,” she said. Hickmott said the ED had been “regularly exceeding well over 100 per cent occupancy since late last year. ED staff were integral, she added, and the DHB was committed to improving their working conditions. David Wait, the lead negotiator for the NZNO union, said the union had asked for staffing levels in hospital wards to be made public and for the implementation of penalty payments for nurses working on under-staffed wards.
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