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Fairness Is About Giving As Well As Getting

Tuesday, 9 December 2003, 10:12 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

On December 10 members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation from the far north to the deep south will demonstrate the flipside of their Fair Pay campaign and show that fairness is about giving as well as getting. More >>

Health Sector Singled Out In Bizarre Strike Clause

Thursday, 4 December 2003, 12:18 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

The inclusion in proposed changes to the ERA of a “Code of Employment Practice” for strikes in the health sector singles out health sector workers such as nurses, and removes rights even the ECA did not attack,” Nurses Organisation CEO Geoff Annals ... More >>

NZ Life Care’s Double Message

Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 1:00 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

Striking members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation at Rotorua’s Redwood Lodge are surprised at the double message coming from their employer, said NZNO organiser Shane Vugler today. More >>

NZ Life Care Refuses to Return to Mediation

Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 2:30 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

NZ Life Care has rejected an offer by New Zealand Nurses Organisation, on behalf of it’s members at Rotorua’s Redwood Lodge, to cancel strike action planned for tomorrow and return to mediation. More >>

Nurses Support Call For Child Poverty Action

Thursday, 27 November 2003, 12:05 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is supporting the call from the Child Poverty Action Group for an end to a discriminatory government policy which denies tax relief to some of New Zealand’s poorest families. More >>

Redwood Staff Vote to Step Up Strike Action

Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 4:42 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

New Zealand Nurses Organisation members at Rotorua’s Redwood Lodge Rest Home and Hospital voted yesterday to take further strike action in December. More >>

Redwood Lodge Staff To Strike For Second Day

Monday, 24 November 2003, 9:43 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

New Zealand Nurses Organisation members at Rotorua’s Redwood Lodge Rest Home and Hospital will be taking a second day of strike action tomorrow seeking minimum staffing levels in their collective agreement. More >>

Lower North Island Nurses’ Negotiations Begin

Friday, 21 November 2003, 2:49 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

The re-negotiation of the Lower North Island MECA (Multi Employer Collective Agreement) covering 4,000 nurses, midwives and health assistants in seven DHBs began in Wellington yesterday. More >>

Strong Local Support for Redwood Lodge Strike

Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 5:33 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

New Zealand Nurses Organisation organiser Shane Vugler said today’s strike by NZNO members at Rotorua’s Redwood Lodge Rest Home and Hospital has been strongly supported by locals. More >>

On The Way To Fair Pay

Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 11:09 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation will deliver 21 petitions signed by nearly 9,000 nurses to Parliament today. More >>

Redwood Lodge Staff Set To Strike

Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 9:38 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

New Zealand Nurses Organisation members at Rotorua’s Redwood Lodge Rest Home and Hospital will walk off the job for 24 hours tomorrow seeking minimum staffing levels in their collective agreement. More >>

Oamaru Nurses Win Parity

Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 12:29 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

New Zealand nurses Organisation members at Oamaru Hospital have voted to accept a new offer from their employer which gives them parity with their South Island colleagues, NZNO organiser Kay Squires said today. More >>

Minimum Levels of Staffing Needed in Aged Care

Monday, 17 November 2003, 11:49 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

"NZNO supports comments made on national radio this morning by the Executive Director of Residential Care NZ that the sector continues to be under funded and they would like to employ more staff and pay them more,” said New Zealand Nurses ... More >>

Underpaid Nurses to Deliver Petition

Monday, 17 November 2003, 3:18 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

A delegation of members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation will present a petition to the Associate Minister of Health, Ruth Dyson, at Parliament steps on Wednesday 19th November. More >>

Proposed Settlement For Oamaru Nurses

Monday, 17 November 2003, 11:05 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

A proposed settlement has been reached in the dispute at Oamaru hospital, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation said today. More >>

Striking Oamaru Nurses Opt For Mediation

Thursday, 30 October 2003, 4:24 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

Nurses at Oamaru Hospital met this morning and opted to return to urgent mediation in an effort to resolve their collective agreement negotiations. More >>

Underpaid Oamaru Nurses Strike for Parity

Monday, 20 October 2003, 2:32 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

Nurses and other health workers at Oamaru Hospital began rolling strike action today to match pay rates elsewhere in the South Island said New Zealand Nurses Organisation CEO Geoff Annals this morning. More >>

Underpaid and Undervalued Aged Care Workers

Tuesday, 30 September 2003, 11:35 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

The low pay and inadequate training of aged care staff will come under the spotlight tomorrow on United Nations International Day of the Older Person. More >>

NZNO.org.nz For Nurses’ News and Issues

Thursday, 25 September 2003, 2:53 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

A new website launched last night at the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Conference 2003 is the place to go for up to date information nurses’ news and issues. More >>

Nurses’ Union Membership Hits Historic High

Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 1:59 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation

“Membership of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation is rapidly growing and has hit a historic high of nearly 34,000 members,” said NZNO president Jane O’Malley today. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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