{"id":12015,"date":"2024-12-03T06:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T17:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12015"},"modified":"2024-12-03T06:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T17:02:43","slug":"nurses-go-on-strike-across-the-nation-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12015","title":{"rendered":"Nurses go on strike across the nation today"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The nationwide strike will be a complete withdrawal of labour at every Te Whatu Ora facility<\/li>\n<li>It will be held from 11am to 7pm on Tuesday<\/li>\n<li>Life-preserving services will continue<\/li>\n<li>Collective contract negotiations are deadlocked<\/li>\n<li>The nationwide strike will be followed by rolling district strikes, with details yet to come.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About 36,000 nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants are walking off the job for eight hours today over what they say are critical threats to patient safety.<\/p>\n<p>Nurses Organisation chief executive Paul Goulter said collective bargaining had stalled over &#8220;the big ticket items&#8221;, which centred on patient safety.<\/p>\n<p>Union members were particularly worried about Health New Zealand&#8217;s plan to pause the Care Capacity Demand Management programme, he said.<\/p>\n<p>That calculates the number of staff and the skill mix needed to safely care for patients according to how sick they are, in real time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, patients will pay the price for hospitals that are continuously understaffed and under-resourced,&#8221; Goulter said.<\/p>\n<p>Members were also disappointed with Te Whatu Ora restricting &#8220;bargaining parameters&#8221; for the settlement to 1 percent of total employee costs.<\/p>\n<p>This would equate to just 0.5 percent in the first year, and up to 1 percent in the second year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This means nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora will be offered a wage increase well below the rate of inflation &#8211; and effectively a pay cut. Nurses should not have to prop up the health system by taking cuts in pay,&#8221; Goulter said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This could lead to a further exodus of New Zealand nurses to Australia. Nurses need a pay rise that reflects at least the cost of living and recognises their skills and knowledge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nationwide strike will be a complete withdrawal of labour at every Te Whatu Ora facility It will be held from 11am to 7pm on Tuesday Life-preserving services will continue Collective contract negotiations are deadlocked The nationwide strike will be followed by rolling district strikes, with details yet to come. About 36,000 nurses, midwives and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12017,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions\/12017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}