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100,000 workers set to walk off the job next week

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An estimated 100,000 teachers, nurses, and healthcare workers across New Zealand are set to strike next week in what is being called the nation’s largest industrial action in decades.

The coordinated walkout on October 23 will include about 36,000 nurses, 11,500 other health workers, and 40,000 teachers demanding safer staffing levels, better pay, and improved conditions.

The mass protest follows a year of escalating labour unrest, with at least 22 official strikes recorded so far, spanning sectors from healthcare and education to transport. Earlier stoppages included doctors, midwives, lab technicians, and Uber drivers, disrupting hospitals, schools, and services nationwide.

The upcoming “mega strike” marks the peak of a year-long wave of industrial action fuelled by cost-of-living pressures and stalled negotiations.

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  1. This is all political. Their unions are all Labour supporters who didn’t stick up for the workers re the mandates and the people themselves didn’t stand by their co-workers. No sympathy except for the patients and students.

  2. My advice get on the blower to Ukraine and see if they will give our tax money back……since that’s where Labour, National and co sent millions upon millions of it…..

  3. Is anybody happy?
    Only pensioners who have been reduced to eating cat food
    Turning the hot water cylinder on and off
    And cutting up handy towels into wipes

  4. As Jeff Berwick has noted over at ‘The Dollar Vigilante TV, “This is the greatest matrixed apocalypse that could ever be!”
    The bald-headed Minion continues to do the bidding of J3wi$h Banksters, (John Key), the Globalists (Larry the Fink) and the purveyors of Agenda / Project 2030.
    Regarding the latter, we probably won’t live to see any of that due to World War Three going nuclear, and the Vaccines finally lining-up with the Deagel forecast.
    Oh, BTW- here’s a vaccinated voter and Labour / vaccine mandate supporter…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6pJDnPqmr8
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wc92SgfZI_0

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