More than 36,000 nurses, midwives, and healthcare assistants are striking nationwide for 24 hours over stalled contract talks with Te Whatu Ora, primarily due to chronic under-staffing rather than pay disputes, according to the New Zealand Nurses Organisation.
Approximately 4300 patient procedures or appointments will be postponed, though emergency services remain open.
Waikato Hospital’s emergency department is reportedly short over 20 full-time nurses, with staff unable to adequately attend to patients.
Health NZ has offered a modest pay rise, while the union seeks assurances of safe staffing levels.
Data shows 50% of day shifts were under-staffed across 16 districts over 10 months, and the union accuses Health NZ of removing safe staffing guarantees from the collective agreement.
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Mandates working out well then. Maybe should have protested with your fellow nurses back in 2021.
Maybe apologise, admit your reasons were wrong, compensate, and ask nicely if they could come back
Its not their fault mate. Many people have mortgages to pay, kids to feed and so on. This is down to these scum sucking, mainstream parties, who put there fellow New Zealanders, in this position.
Foreign agents and domestic terrorists.
It is partly their fault. The pressure was immense though. 1984 nurses and midwives got significant service disruption exemptions.
Heard some Dame on TV this morning, commenting on this story/situation saying that there was a lot of absence for sickness right now. Which there does seem to be in general.
It’s like the flu and covid jabs are not helping protect health workers or improving their immune system, which surely is the point of receiving them. Yet, most of them keep lining up for more
That’s exactly what I was thinking too.
Apparently the reason is NOT a lack of staff available to hire, but lack of funds available to hire them.
Not sure where we could get the funds.
150 odd mill to Urkaine
293 mill to clean up an oil field after the company went broke and exited stage left
50 odd mill for methSat that is now lost
Half a billion on cancelled contracts for the cook straight ferry
Maybe the answer lies in more taxes, after paying
Income tax, GST, council rates, car registration, ACC, dog registration, excise tax on petrol and alcohol…………..definitely room for more, who needs to eat or stay warm right?
This is why this National crowd are having a hard time lasting beyond the first term in office. Nothing of consequence has been done about this and other things that matter. Yet they have no problems squandering our money on the Ukraine regime and military crap we don’t need. Time to show them and Hard Labour the door “permanently”, We can’t keep voting for parties not acting in the national sovereign interest.
Another excuse to bring in more immigrant healthcare workers (rolls eyes), when our newly qualified kiwi nurses can’t get jobs after applying for many. Make it make sense.