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Maori and Iwi Health Care Workers Want Pay Parity
Friday, 21 December 2007, 11:32 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Maori and Iwi Primary Health Care workers launched a petition today calling on Parliament to provide the funding required to achieve pay parity with their counterparts working in public hospitals. More >>
Collectivised Nursing Workforce Now 40,000 Strong
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 8:42 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
New Zealand’s nurses, midwives and caregivers are stronger than ever as membership of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation passes 40,000 for the first time. More >>
Aged Care Workers Winning as One
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 10:27 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Today the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and Service and Food Workers Union have jointly initiated bargaining for a multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) with over 200 aged care providers across the country. More >>
Public Can Trust Nurses to Keep Them Safe
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 9:58 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
While the headlines continue to report serious failings in Wellington Hospital’s safety systems, the public can be assured that nurses are doing everything possible to keep them safe. NZNO President Marion Guy, an experienced emergency nurse, assured ... More >>
Capital and Coast. Keep Your District Nurses!
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 10:19 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
District Nurses call on Capital and Coast District Health Board to listen to its staff and community and pull back from plans to foist privatisation upon the region’s community nursing service. More >>
Bringing Tikanga to Industrial Relations
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 11:00 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
A unique event in New Zealand’s industrial relations history gets underway today with the opening of bargaining for a Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) between the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and 60 Maori and Iwi primary health care providers. More >>
Workers Wait for Wage Rise
Sunday, 25 November 2007, 2:12 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The thumping $34.7 million half-yearly profit announced with fanfare by Ryman Healthcare this morning reveals the truth behind Healthcare Providers New Zealand’s war on workers’ wages that saw Aged Care employers take District Health Boards to court ... More >>
Where Are Taxpayer Dollars Going in Aged Care?
Monday, 19 November 2007, 3:43 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Today’s Judicial Review of DHB contracts with privatised Aged Care providers is a shameful attack on the Government’s attempts to bring accountability and transparency to the sector. More >>
NZNO Looks Forward To Positive Relationship
Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 4:05 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation acknowledges outgoing Minister of Health Pete Hodgson and welcomes David Cunliffe to this important portfolio. More >>
Aged Care Workers’ Wages Withheld
Thursday, 18 October 2007, 10:31 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Anglican Aged Care in Christchurch refuses to offer its staff the minimum pay increases required by the District Health Board despite receiving additional funding tagged for relieving the chronic low pay in the sector. More >>
GP Fee Hoopla Overlooks Nurses’ Potential
Monday, 8 October 2007, 12:35 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The attention on Primary Health Care generated by last week’s release of both the National Party’s Health Discussion Paper and the report on the Primary Health Care Strategy Evaluation overlooks the potential for nurses to have a much greater role ... More >>
GP Fee Hoopla Overlooks Nurses’ Potential
Thursday, 4 October 2007, 9:27 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The attention on Primary Health Care generated by last week’s release of both the National Party’s Health Discussion Paper and the report on the Primary Health Care Strategy Evaluation overlooks the potential for nurses to have a much greater role ... More >>
Int'l Older Persons' Day - Respecting Our Elderly
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 11:17 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota say that International Older Persons Day is the perfect time for New Zealanders to change our mindset when it comes to caring for our elderly. More >>
Quality Care: Respecting Our Elderly
Monday, 1 October 2007, 9:39 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota say that International Older Persons Day is the perfect time for New Zealanders to change our mindset when it comes to caring for our elderly. More >>
Collaborative Bargaining Gets Results
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 5:18 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation and District Health Boards have reached agreement on a Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) covering 20,000 nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants working in New Zealand’s Public Hospitals. More >>
Positive Collective Bargaining Belies HCPNZ Positn
Monday, 3 September 2007, 4:42 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Offers made to unionised Aged Care workers by four major employers in the sector show that collective negotiations are making progress, despite a Judicial Review launched by Health Care Providers New Zealand. More >>
Nurses Call off Strike in Fiji
Friday, 10 August 2007, 10:33 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) chief executive Geoff Annals has been advised by the general secretary of the Fiji Nursing Association (FNA) that striking nurses in Fiji will return to work on Saturday. More >>
Nurses in Struggle against Domestic Violence
Tuesday, 31 July 2007, 3:05 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation takes a zero tolerance stance on all violence and supports the proposal to use nurses to help identify and eliminate domestic abuse. More >>
Flexible Working Legislation Means Safer Hospitals
Monday, 30 July 2007, 2:39 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation says Green MP Sue Kedgley’s Flexible Working Hours bill will be an important tool for addressing safe staffing issues at New Zealand’s hospitals. More >>
Sustainable Employment Relations
Thursday, 19 July 2007, 2:12 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO condemns the aggressive and divisive tactics used by Spotless Services Ltd to deprive their employees working at New Zealand’s public hospitals of the terms and conditions agreed to by 17 DHBs and 3 private companies. More >>
