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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 >>
NZNO disappointed at Bills failure
Tuesday, 17 July 2007, 12:06 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO is disappointed at the fate of the Australia New Zealand Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill, now on hold after the Government failed to get the numbers to support the Bill. More >>
NZNO congratulates Hutt Valley DHB
Wednesday, 27 June 2007, 5:17 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO congratulates Hutt Valley District Health Board (DHB) on winning magnet hospital status. “We congratulate all the nursing staff and other health care staff at Hutt on achieving magnet status. It has been a long and exhaustive process which has revealed ... More >>
Aged Care Workforce Highlights Staff Shortages
Thursday, 21 June 2007, 9:42 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation working in residential aged care have chosen today, the shortest day of the year, to highlight continued staffing shortages in aged care facilities. More >>
Collective bargaining only way to solve pay crisis
Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 5:11 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
“The Government’s linking of funding for the aged the aged care workforce with collective bargaining is the only way to genuinely solve the low pay crisis across the sector,” said New Zealand Nurses Organisation organising service manager Cee ... More >>
Nurses Day: A Commitment to Quality Healthcare
Friday, 11 May 2007, 1:00 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Tomorrow is International Nurses Day which is celebrated every year on May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is proud to take part in the celebration of this year’s theme, Positive Practice ... More >>
