More than 36,000 nurses, midwives to strike, demanding better pay, staffing
More than 36,000 nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants will walk off the job again today, demanding better pay and increased staffing.
For the second time this week, Nurses Organisation (NZNO) members will withdraw their labour at every place where Te Whatu Ora provided healthcare or hospital care services between 7am and 11pm.
Life-preserving services would still be provided.
Tens of thousands of NZNO members took strike action on Tuesday morning. The union said Te Whatu Ora had failed to address concerns about patient safety and staffing after a year of bargaining.
I believe we need a 15% pay rise across the board for all public servants, be they Nurses, Drs, Teachers, Police etc etc etc.
And on top of that baseline pay rise increase, we need to make conditions better.
We need to bind nurses, Drs, Police, Teachers – we will give them their education and training for free and in return they agree to be bonded for a set period inside the public service infrastructure.
We need a 4 day working week for them and subsidies accomodation for junior Teachers, Nurses, Police, Drs etc etc.
We need to make the work conditions for those who chose to work for the people good enough to stop losing workers to Australia.
We can’t pay them more, but let’s make the work conditions far better.
No one is paying our public servants the respect they require for the mana they perform.
Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
National, ACT and NZF don’t give a shit about the public service because they all pay for private, that’s why they are so focused on undermining Public Education, Public Health, Public Housing and Public Infrastructure.
Their focus is strangling the common good for their donors interests.
Nurses deserve 15% pay rise
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What care our health, eh news, the nurses are walkin aff the job today, fuck what knowing said, and what ignorance profit,,ignored,, how long our we tell yous. Time and date care.
Wake up you sleepy for certain, Kiwi!s.
Snark? Have you been drinking?
Of a population of now 5.3 million with an agrarian primary industry of only 50,000 people giving rise to our country’s economy but also to the toxic presence of 14 urban multi- billionaires, 3118 multi-millionaires each with a base line fortune of $50 million net each and of us now feeding the four now Australian owned but once were AO/NZ banks ( ANZ, BNZ, ASB and Westpac.) who are currently rorting us more than any other banks in the world, second only to Canada in net profits off us then of course we can’t afford to pay nurses what they’re worth.
I’d humbly suggest then that we investigate and tax/imprison accordingly the multi-billionaires, the multi-millionaires and the fucking greedy evil scum banksters until we can pay our wonderful nurses, lets be modest and write, 300% more for nursing the old, the sick, and the spent and their long suffering children who will inherit an exhausted country dying in the gutter from gross exploitation. We’ve become increasingly at risk of being predated by now panicking foreign monsters looking for a killer deal and a bolt hole from the consequences of their unfettered greed so lets divert their bribes to our politicians and instead to our nurses.
We, that is us and you and me, should beg and beseech The Crown for a public royal commission of inquiry into the derailment of our paradise for no other reason than, God forbid honourable intentions to feather the nests of the vulgar and the arrogant who live in mansions enjoying the myths of their own abstract, logical fallacy successes.
In my humble opinion all unions and agencies should support nurses for as long as it takes to have common sense prevail. Just sayin’.
I think it’s the other way round.
It’s not that nurses, teachers, cleaners et al are getting paid too little, it’s the greedy fat cats get paid far too much. It’s the disparity in wages that drives poverty, not the actual wages themselves.
We have a problem because soap flake can go into a supermarket and buy whatever he wants and never even cares about the price of lobster, butter and a crate of Cristal.
So as long as there’s a market at a price point supermarkets will charge what thy can.
Put soap flake on min wage, not only to reimburse him fairly, but to remove price gouging and poverty.
Of course they do. Everybody deserves a 15percent rise. If only we had money in NZ. Mining, oil, coal, minerals, nuclear power anyone?
And the pipsqueak Simian Brow doesn’t even have the courage to talk to them or the media.
Just pastes cheap and easily debunked lies on windows and social media.
I distinctly remember the teachings of Jesus stating “and you shall lie through though teeth in order to steal from those who care for the sick. For are they not scum, and a burden unto the wealthy and sorted”
What a shining example of Christianity.
Australia beckons. The government health employees have salary packaging. So before your salary is taxed they take out costs for leasing a vehicle , paying rent or mortgage and any incidental costs, then tax the remaining salary. If nurses in NZ knew this they would leave in droves. Add in the horrendous cost of living crisis National has created and there is absolutely no incentive to live and work in NZ, none.
Minster,, yes,, what Union, uncaring Strike, why, Just their union being not sitting at the table, Minister, what laying on your table, cant say.
Could this be true?Part of the plot to privatise health: Deliberately underpay nurses then they leave and get better pay in a private hospital!
Remember Hipkins has private coverage.
What do you think?
Please bandage our health care.
Martyn – NZ/UK/Canada/USA/Australia trained nurses, yes… no for the others.
Hipkins ain’t in power jay11 so what are you talking about, Nurses and our teachers got pay rises under Labour