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Historic Pay Equity Settlement
Tuesday, 7 June 2022, 3:29 pm | District Health Boards
Historic Pay Equity settlement More >>
Injunction Stops Hospital Strike
Thursday, 3 March 2022, 6:20 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards have welcomed the Employment Court’s ruling to stop tomorrow’s planned strike by Allied Health workers that would have impacted a range of hospital, community and outpatient services. DHB spokesperson Keriana Brooking says Omicron ... More >>
DHBs Seek Injunction To Stop Hospital Strike Untitled Release
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 7:30 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards have asked the Employment Court to stop a planned strike by Allied Health workers this Friday, ahead of facilitation scheduled next week. The nation-wide action by 10,000 PSA members could see a range of hospital, community ... More >>
PSA Nurses and MERAS Midwives settle pay talks
Friday, 17 September 2021, 3:00 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards are pleased to announce settlements have been reached in bargaining with PSA Nurses and with midwives covered by the MERAS – the Midwifery Employee Representation & Advisory Service. More >>
Let’s use pay equity to stop strikes and find a solution
Tuesday, 17 August 2021, 2:14 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards say the Government’s announcement on pay equity is a formula to break the impasse in pay talks with the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. More >>
DHBs Talk To NZNO To Advance Settlement
Friday, 30 July 2021, 5:56 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards have reached out and talked to the New Zealand Nurses Organisation following the rejection of their latest settlement offer. Spokesperson Dale Oliff says the DHBs’ negotiation team had fruitful discussions with the NZNO and look ... More >>
DHBs Surprised By Nurses ‘No’ Vote
Friday, 30 July 2021, 5:43 am | District Health Boards
District Health Boards say the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and its members have turned their backs on a settlement package of safe staffing and patient initiatives plus pay rises worth more than $400 million. Nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants ... More >>
DHBs Disappointed By Strike Ballot
Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 2:11 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards say they’re disappointed the NZ Nurses Organisation is balloting members for more strikes ahead of talks this week. The union is proposing three strikes: 24 hours from 11:00 am, 29 July – until 11:00am, 30 July 8 hours ... More >>
DHBs Strike Contingency Response Going To Plan
Thursday, 10 June 2021, 6:12 am | District Health Boards
Jun 9, 2021 District Health Boards say contingency plans at the country’s hospitals have been supporting care as intended for the strike by NZNO nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants that began at 11:00 this morning and ended at 7:00 tonight. ... More >>
DHBs ask for Facilitation to help end MIT strikes
Tuesday, 29 October 2019, 3:52 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards are asking the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) to help break the impasse in bargaining with APEX Medical Imaging Technologists (MITs) which has seen multiple strikes disrupting patient services. More >>
Union withdraws strike action
Thursday, 4 April 2019, 2:11 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards are pleased the planned RDA strike before Easter has been called off. More >>
Union action duplicitous
Friday, 29 March 2019, 3:58 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Board’s say the four-day strike threatened by the Resident Doctors’ Association is a cynical ploy by a union trying to cause maximum disruption to services to distract from the key issue at the heart of this dispute. More >>
DHBs open to further talks with junior doctors
Friday, 8 March 2019, 2:50 pm | District Health Boards
Spokesperson David Meates says DHBs made a number of suggestions to settle the deadlocked negotiations and address RDA concerns, but they have been rejected. “It is important to repeat that we are not seeking claw backs, pay cuts or forcing trainee doctors ... More >>
Mediation fails to prevent strike
Thursday, 24 January 2019, 3:43 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards are disappointed that the Resident Doctors’ Association has rejected attempts to resolve the current rostering dispute and prevent another two-day strike by trainee doctors next week. More >>
DHBs challenge RDA claims; remain committed to bargaining
Wednesday, 16 January 2019, 5:07 pm | District Health Boards
Hospitals are coping well with the Resident Doctors’ Association 48-hour strike, which ends at 7am tomorrow, while District Health Boards remain open to negotiating a settlement, DHBs’ spokesman Dr Peter Bramley says. More >>
DHBs dispute union’s claims about bargaining
Friday, 11 January 2019, 5:20 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards strongly dispute the claims made by the Resident Doctors’ Association about bargaining discussions related to a collective agreement for Resident Medical Officers (often called junior doctors). More >>
DHBs urge midwives to reconsider
Thursday, 13 December 2018, 7:33 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards are hoping midwives will reconsider the pay offer from DHBs before voting on further strike action. More >>
DHBs look for way forward in midwives strike
Thursday, 22 November 2018, 2:21 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards are hoping striking midwives will join them in facilitation or return to mediation to find a way through the current impasse in the pay dispute. More >>
DHBs seek mediation to try and settle Midwives negotiations
Tuesday, 6 November 2018, 4:42 pm | District Health Boards
District Health Boards remain positive that mediation will help solve the impasses in pay talks with midwives and prevent a threatened series of two-hour strikes each day from 22 November to 5 December. More >>
DHBs welcome ‘Yes’ vote
Tuesday, 7 August 2018, 10:38 am | District Health Boards
District Health Boards are promising to work with the New Zealand Nurses Organisation on the issues raised by nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants during contract negotiations. More >>
