Nurses deserve 15% pay rise
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?
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.
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.
Please bandage our health care.
Hipkins ain’t in power jay11 so what are you talking about, Nurses and our teachers got pay rises under Labour