Nurses begin fresh round of campaigning over pay and conditions
About 40 paid union meetings are being held across the country for New Zealand Nurses Organisation members who work for Te Whatu Ora.
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About 40 paid union meetings are being held across the country for New Zealand Nurses Organisation members who work for Te Whatu Ora.
Nearly 75,000 people on the New Zealand Register of Nurses are certified to work, but many are avoiding the industry, according to the Nurses Organisation.
Nearly half the country's nurses are not working as nurses, with some even taking jobs in supermarkets or on road gangs.
Te Whatu Ora's beefed up Voluntary Bonding Scheme for new graduates will not stop people dropping out before they even qualify, nurses and midwives warn.
They will get a 4 percent pay increase, double their employer Whakarongorau's initial offer, unions said today.