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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 >>
Auckland Understaffing Makes Nurses Fearful At Work
Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 2:46 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says unpreparedness for COVID-19 and a sustained lack of investment in the resources required for safe staffing have left nurses and health care workers at Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) feeling unsafe ... More >>
NZNO Chief Executive Memo Musa To Resign
Thursday, 3 December 2020, 10:47 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Board of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) regrets to announce the resignation of NZNO Chief Executive Memo Musa. NZNO President Heather Symes said Mr Musa, who took up the Chief Executive role in May 2013, has provided much needed ... More >>
Quarantine Worker COVID Infection Evidence Of MIQ System Failures
Saturday, 7 November 2020, 3:09 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation says the fact that an Auckland MIQ worker has contracted COVID-19, as announced yesterday, is both disappointing and troubling, but not at all surprising. NZNO Associate Professional Services Manager Kate Weston ... More >>
Unsafe MIQ Staffing And Conditions Putting Us All At Risk
Wednesday, 4 November 2020, 6:07 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says two health workers infected with COVID-19 in Christchurch are a symptom of systemic, structural problems with the way managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities are being managed in New Zealand ... More >>
Nurses And Health Workers Agree To Keep Moving
Monday, 19 October 2020, 4:33 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) congratulates the Labour Party on its historic election win and promises to work with the new Government so that progress in health can "keep moving" in Aotearoa New Zealand. NZNO President Heather ... More >>
Second Strike Ballot For Primary Health Care Workers
Thursday, 15 October 2020, 2:19 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
3200 Primary Health Care (PHC) nurses and staff members employed in more than 500 general practices and accident and medical centres will commence voting today on a second round of strike action. Two 24 hour strikes two weeks apart on Monday 9 ... More >>
Open Letter To PM Expresses Nurses’ Disappointment At Having To Consider Further Industrial Action
Tuesday, 6 October 2020, 3:50 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has today sent an open letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern asking why her Government has shown no urgency in helping find the money to provide pay parity for its Primary Health Care members who work ... More >>
Labour Policies Make Little Difference To Māori Health
Sunday, 4 October 2020, 3:08 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Despite stated commitments to equity and rangatiratanga, neither Labour’s health policy nor Māori Manifesto indicate any substantial, Tiriti-based change for Māori health. Māori nursing advocate and Kaiwhakahaere of Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki ... More >>
Primary Health Care Workers Ballot For Further Industrial Action If No Quick Resolution
Friday, 2 October 2020, 5:02 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
More than 3400 primary health workers across more than 500 general practices and accident and medical centres have voted overwhelmingly for further industrial action if there is no resolution that addresses pay parity. The resolution adopted at the ... More >>
