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Pay Parity For Primary Health Petition
Monday, 12 December 2005, 11:43 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Temperatures are rising in the primary health care nursing workforce, as the pay gap widens between them and their counterparts in public hospitals. More >>
Where Will Extra Nurses Come From To Stop Gaps?
Monday, 12 December 2005, 11:42 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation agrees with the Minister of Health that nurses will play an increasing role in GP surgeries but questions where those nurses will come unless their pay issues are addressed. More >>
Guardian Healthcare Refuses to Share Profits
Monday, 5 December 2005, 9:58 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Over 500 staff employed by Guardian Healthcare Limited are considering industrial action leading up to Christmas after their wealthy corporate employer refused to budge from a 1% pay offer. More >>
Another Major Milestone In NZNO Fair Pay Campaign
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 10:54 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Over eighty percent of senior nurses, midwives and community nurses employed by district health boards have endorsed the outcome of a national job scoping exercise which brings them onto a unified pay scale for the first time in over a decade. More >>
Wellington Nurses Celebrate Proud History
Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 3:15 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Wellington branch of the New Zealand nurses organisation is 100 years old this month and local nurses will mark the event with a celebration this evening. More >>
DHB funding offer
Monday, 7 November 2005, 5:15 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
“The announcement of a new DHB funding offer to aged care employers for 2005-2006 means employers must return to negotiations with their staff and agree to pay rises,” said New Zealand Nurses Organisation industrial services manager Cee Payne-Harker ... More >>
Tribute To Mighty Supporter of Workers’ Rights
Monday, 7 November 2005, 11:16 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The CEO of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, Geoff Annals, has paid tribute today to Rod Donald and extended condolences to Rod’s family and his Green Party colleagues on behalf of NZNO. More >>
Remember Commitments To Caregivers
Wednesday, 26 October 2005, 11:13 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is cautioning government to ensure that money committed to fair pay rates in the aged care sector is not spent on the highest paid state sector officials and MPs' salaries. More >>
Aged Care Employers Using Govt Funding as Excuse
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 11:30 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Presbyterian Support has joined the list of aged care providers using government underfunding as an excuse to pay rates that don’t recognise the value of their workforce says the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. More >>
Southern Presbyterian Support Strike Action
Wednesday, 19 October 2005, 4:27 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
19 October 2005 Strike Action In Southern Presbyterian Support Aged Care To Go Ahead Strike action will go ahead tomorrow in hospitals and rest homes across Southland, Otago and South Canterbury. 380 members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and ... More >>
NZNO Looks Forward To Working For Fair Pay
Wednesday, 19 October 2005, 4:05 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
19 October 2005 Nurses Organisation Looks Forward To Working With Health Minister For Fair Pay in Aged Care and Primary Health The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is looking forward to working with new Health Minister Pete Hodgson to address priority ... More >>
Sthn Strike Action Planned In Presbyterian Support
Monday, 17 October 2005, 9:58 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and the Service and Food Workers Union employed by Presbyterian Support in the South Island have voted to strike after PSS rejected a union settlement deal. More >>
Tararu Snake Returns
Wednesday, 12 October 2005, 10:09 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Spurred on by community support from their protest last week, registered nurses, care-givers and support staff from Tararu Rest Home and Hospital will tomorrow return to Thames’ main street with their snake. More >>
Aged Care Workers Snake The Street
Thursday, 6 October 2005, 8:54 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Registered nurses, care-givers and support staff from Tararu Rest Home and Hospital have come up with a novel way of drawing attention to their plight. More >>
Staffing levels in aged care below guidelines
Monday, 3 October 2005, 12:08 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Staffing levels in aged care are well below Ministry of Health-supported indicators for safe staffing, according to a just-published New Zealand Nurses’ Organisation study. More >>
Guardian Strike On As Mediation Fails
Friday, 23 September 2005, 11:16 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Next week’s strike action involving more than 500 staff of Guardian Healthcare Limited is set to go ahead after mediation between the parties failed to settle the dispute. More >>
Nurses Show Power Of Collective Action
Tuesday, 20 September 2005, 1:49 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
"Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation have shown the power of collective action by winning our fair pay claim in DHBs and are now set to collectively achieve our other goals," said NZNO president Jane O’Malley today, on the eve of the ... More >>
Nurses’ Organisation Welcomes Cullen Commitment
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 1:07 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has joined Healthcare Providers NZ in welcoming Finance Minister Michael Cullen’s commitment to a significant increase in aged care funding. More >>
NZNO Welcomes Move to Extend Nurse Prescribing
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 11:53 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
“The move to extend prescribing rights to nurse practitioners will improve access to services and health outcomes and taps into the enormous potential of nurses to improve the delivery of health services,” says NZNO professional nursing advisor ... More >>
Equality Needed to Eliminate Poverty
Friday, 9 September 2005, 1:13 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO supports tomorrow's international White Band day preceding the UN General Assembly review of the Millennium Declaration to eradicate extreme poverty by meeting the target of 0.7% of Gross National Income in aid assistance. More >>
