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New Zealanders say Stop the Aged Care Crisis!
Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 10:43 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Aged Care workers form across the country come to Parliament today with a message from New Zealand voters: Stop ignoring the crisis in elderly care. Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and Service and Food Workers Union will deliver their ... More >>
NZ’s largest MECA settled
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 3:13 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
After nearly 12 months and 27 days of negotiations, a proposed settlement for primary healthcare (PHC) nurses and administrative staff has been reached, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation announced this morning. More >>
Time for Canterbury DHB to Take Responsibility
Monday, 27 November 2006, 1:41 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Canterbury District Health Board must take full responsibility for surgery shortcomings resulting from strike action. New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) CEO, Geoff Annals, says that “any strike action involves a choice by two parties: a union who decides ... More >>
Nurses Appalled by Canterbury DHB Suggestion
Monday, 13 November 2006, 2:28 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is appalled by the suggestion from Canterbury District Health Board that New Zealand health workers should be denied the right to take strike action. Such a move would not only diminish our health professionals’ ... More >>
Flexible Working Hours Vital To New Zealand Health
Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 11:30 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is giving its full support to calls for more flexible working hours spearheaded by Sue Kedgley’s private members’ bill. NZNO is a member of the Coalition for Quality Flexible Work, launched yesterday at ... More >>
Public Sector Nurses Bargaining for New MECA
Monday, 6 November 2006, 12:58 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has initiated bargaining to re-negotiate the Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) covering over 20,000 nurses employed by District Health Boards. The current agreement expires on 31 December 2006. More >>
Practice Nurses Bear Brunt Of Waiting List Cull
Monday, 11 September 2006, 3:37 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
“The culling of waiting lists by sending patients back to GP practices will mean a bigger workload for already stretched practice nurses,” said Rosemary Minto, Chair of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation College of Practice Nurses today. More >>
Picket Auckland Hospital Park Road 7th September
Monday, 11 September 2006, 12:09 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
New Zealand Nurses Organisation and the Northern Chemical Workers Union members are picketing the Auckland DHB as their employer tables a petition against the awarding of the Testing Laboratory for the DHBs’ contract to a new company with no facilities ... More >>
Picket Auckland Hospital Park Road
Friday, 1 September 2006, 4:28 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
New Zealand Nurses Organisation and the Northern Chemical Workers Union members are picketing the Auckland DHB as their employer tables a petition against the awarding of the Testing Laboratory for the DHBs’ contract to a new company with no facilities ... More >>
Nurses Org. Backs Locked Out Supermarket Workers
Thursday, 31 August 2006, 2:36 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is strongly supporting locked out members of the National Distribution Union in their battle for decent pay and a national collective agreement. More >>
Taskforce wanted to tackle Diabetes
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 5:30 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO wants a national expert taskforce established to tackle obesity and type 2 diabetes. More >>
Increased Primary Health Threatened By DHB Pay Gap
Friday, 21 July 2006, 3:43 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The primary health workforce, vital to the Government’s strategy of increasing the role of primary health, is shunning the sector for jobs with DHBs, earning up to $200 more a week, says the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. More >>
Fair Pay At Last For Public Hospital Nursing Staff
Friday, 30 June 2006, 9:47 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The final and largest installment of the “Fair Pay” settlement won by members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation in March 2005 becomes a reality tomorrow. July 1 is “Fair Pay” day for thousands of nurses, midwives and health care assistants ... More >>
Health Workers Must Be Protected In An Epidemic
Wednesday, 21 June 2006, 5:12 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has warned that proposals in a Bill before Parliament aimed at preparing for an epidemic may expose health professionals to even greater risks. More >>
Need For Targeted Funding for Pay
Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 2:39 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
“The breakdown of negotiations between DHBs and GPs over patient fees shows the complexity of a system where government funds private businesses to provide public services,” said New Zealand Nurses Organisation spokesperson, Chris Wilson today. More >>
Practice Nurses Reconfirm Support
Monday, 22 May 2006, 9:16 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
A key gathering of New Zealand's practice nurses has strongly backed the New Zealand Nurses Organisation campaign for pay parity in primary healthcare this afternoon. More >>
Budget Leaves Aged Care Out in the Cold
Thursday, 18 May 2006, 3:53 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
“This year’s Budget will make little, if any, difference to the poverty pay rates in aged care and fails to deliver on election promises of significant extra funding for the sector,” said New Zealand Nurses Organisation spokesperson Rob Haultain today. More >>
Media statement regarding images of caregiving
Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 2:31 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has today reconfirmed that the family of a rest home resident whose photograph appears in a photo essay published in NZNO's magazine Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand gave full consent for publication. More >>
Safe Staffing Lack Puts Lives At Risk in Aged Care
Friday, 12 May 2006, 5:11 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Today is International Nurses Day and the theme is Safe Staffing Saves lives. “Unfortunately for the residents of aged care facilities in New Zealand, many of the facility owners do not accept the fundamental link between staffing numbers and safe care,” said ... More >>
Lack of Staffing Puts Lives At Risk in Aged Care
Friday, 12 May 2006, 10:37 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
12 May 2006 Lack of Safe Staffing Puts Lives At Risk in Aged Care Today is International Nurses Day and the theme is Safe Staffing Saves lives. “Unfortunately for the residents of aged care facilities in New Zealand, many of the facility owners do not accept ... More >>
