New Zealand Nurses Organisation - Latest News [Page 7]
NZNO Satisfied With Auckland DHB Visitation Policy Decision
Monday, 13 September 2021, 6:21 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is satisfied now that Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) has agreed to restrict visitation to compassionate grounds only - when it moves Auckland Hospital from Code Yellow to Code Orange at 7am tomorrow. ... More >>
NZNO Takes Legal Action Over Auckland Hospital Visitor Policy
Saturday, 11 September 2021, 4:19 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has taken legal action through the Employment Relations Authority after Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) refused to meet with it for mediation on Friday over Auckland Hospital’s visiting policy. NZNO Industrial ... More >>
NZNO Members Issue Provisional Improvement Notice To Auckland District Health Board On "Free For All’ Visitor Policy
Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 5:07 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is calling for Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) to urgently change its visitor guidelines to align with other DHBs. This follows the issuing of a Provisional Improvement Notice (PIN) to ADHB for putting staff and ... More >>
Close Contact Nurses Working Underscores DHB Staffing Issues
Sunday, 22 August 2021, 4:17 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says the fact that nurses who live with close contacts are being asked to turn up for work at Auckland’s DHBs, and monitor themselves for symptoms in the meantime, shows how desperate the health system is ... More >>
Nurses Withdraw Strike Action After Lockdown Declared
Tuesday, 17 August 2021, 8:02 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says it will withdraw its strike action plans for 19 August after a community case of COVID-19 in Auckland has led to a nationwide lockdown. NZNO Industrial Services Manager Glenda Alexander said people’s health ... More >>
NZNO Disturbed DHBs Are Seeking Emergency Cover Ruling
Monday, 2 August 2021, 5:45 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is disturbed the district heath boards (DHBs) have approached the Employment Court to help resolve a disagreement over providing life preserving services (LPS) during strike action, says NZNO Kaiwhakahaere Kerri ... More >>
NZNO Issues Next Strike Notice
Monday, 2 August 2021, 1:08 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has today issued strike notices to the country’s district health boards (DHBs) after its 30,000 members who work in DHBs voted in favour of an eight-hour nationwide strike on 19 August. The notice is for ... More >>
Nurses Reject Latest DHB Offer For Failing To Address Safe Staffing
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 7:39 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO members who work in district health boards (DHBs) have voted by clear majority to reject the latest offer in their negotiations with the DHBs, saying it fails to address the chronic and systemic safe staffing issues in a way that would ensure ... More >>
NZNO To Present DHB MECA Offer; Withdraws Strike Notice
Friday, 16 July 2021, 4:26 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says significant progress has been made in negotiations with the district health boards (DHBs) over the latest multi-employer collective agreement (MECA), and it will be presenting an offer to its members next ... More >>
Nurses Reject DHB Offer And Confirm Strike Action
Monday, 7 June 2021, 4:03 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation says its 30,000 members who work in DHBs have voted overwhelmingly to reject a second offer in their current round of multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) negotiations. This means the eight-hour strike planned ... More >>
NZNO Sceptical Of Budget’s Impact On Health System Crisis
Friday, 21 May 2021, 1:10 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is sceptical of the Budget’s effect for healing a health system in crisis. NZNO Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku says there are some positive initiatives but that the government’s recent actions have shaken ... More >>
NZNO Insists On Good Faith Bargaining In Light Of Pay Restraint
Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 1:59 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says it’s ironic that, on the eve of the International Day of the Nurse, it had to attend a meeting with Government to defend its members’ right to be treated in good faith while negotiating their multi-employer ... More >>
Nurses Extremely Disappointed At Pay Freeze Announcement
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 5:29 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO says health care workers across Aotearoa New Zealand are extremely disappointed following the government’s pay freeze announcement. Despite being on the frontline for COVID-19, Nurses, midwives, healthcare assistants and kaimahi hauora employed ... More >>
Nurses Find First DHB Collective Agreement Offer Completely Unacceptable
Monday, 12 April 2021, 10:39 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The nearly 30,000 district health board (DHB) members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) have received the first DHB offer in their multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) negotiations, which began last year. In a survey of the affected ... More >>
Pasifika Encouraged To Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Friday, 19 March 2021, 12:44 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Pacific Nursing Section of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is asking the Pasifika community to accept the COVID-19 vaccine and says the Government needs a special vaccination programme for Pasifika. Pacific Nursing Section Chairperson ... More >>
NZNO To Picket Labtests Auckland Office
Friday, 12 March 2021, 12:56 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
After ongoing negotiations with Labtests since September last year and mediation in late January, NZNO members have voted to take picket action and commence a 24 hour strike ballot NZNO organiser Sarah Barker says the decision comes after members ... More >>
Living Wage For Crowne Plaza Auckland MIQ Workers
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 11:38 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
MEDIA RELEASE SUPPORTING UNITE UNION Unite congratulates Crowne Plaza Auckland, currently an MIQ facility, for making the move to paying their workers the living wage. The welcome increase will provide some relief to workers who are normally paid ... More >>
Māori Nurses Are Tired Of Waiting For Equity
Friday, 26 February 2021, 11:37 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Māori nurses are tired of waiting for long-overdue action addressing the 25 percent pay gap between themselves and those working for district health boards. Kerri Nuku, Kaiwhakahaere of Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa/New Zealand Nurses Organisation, ... More >>
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Must Hear Nurses On Their Own Terms
Friday, 12 February 2021, 5:54 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is urging Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to invest time into hearing real stories from frontline MIQ nurses and other health workers. The Prime Minister has stated publicly that frontline MIQ workers are being ... More >>
Tai Tokerau Nurse Marie Noa Receives Prestigious Akenehi Hei Award
Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 3:56 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Renowned Ngāti Hine rangatira and nurse Marie Noa has received the Te Rūnanga o Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) Akenehi Hei Award for her dedication to the health of whānau Māori in Te Tai Tokerau and around Aotearoa. The ceremony ... More >>