\u201cTo show our appreciation and to give back to the community we have done fundraising while on strike and have raised $750, which has gone on Pak\u2019nSave vouchers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warrander said nurses were aware of the impact of their strikes.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut unsafe staffing has a bigger impact on the community with surgeries getting postponed [and] patients getting care rationing, with their nurses not able to do everything they would like in a timely manner.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere simply are not enough nurses for the increasing number of people needing healthcare.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth in the community and in the hospital setting, they are presenting sicker, with more complex needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Striking NZNO members around the country have also fundraised for community organisations or donated blood.<\/p>\n
This week, NZNO filed the first two pay equity claims under the coalition Government\u2019s new stricter regime. <\/p>\n
The claims are on behalf of 750 hospice members and 800 Plunket members.<\/p>\n
Hospice and Plunket are the most advanced of NZNO\u2019s 12 previous claims, which were scrapped overnight with the Government\u2019s changes on May 6.<\/p>\n
NZNO pay equity spokesperson Glenda Alexander said it would meet with each employer separately to progress the respective claims as set out under the new law.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe employers will now be required to confirm the claims have met the merit and other thresholds required under the new regime,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cA process to assess the claims will then be set up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know all parties to the two claims are keen to see a positive outcome for these nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last week, senior doctors, including those at Gisborne Hospital, voted to go back on strike for 24 hours on September 23 and 24.<\/p>\n
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) said Health New Zealand\u2019s latest pay offer would have resulted in \u201ca real pay cut\u201d for most members,<\/p>\n
\u201cFor 90% of senior doctors and dentists covered by our collective agreement, this offer would have represented an annualised pay increase of just 1.16% per year.<\/p>\n
\u201cEscalating strike action is a last resort, but Health New Zealand must make ASMS members an offer that ensures that specialist salary rates remain competitive and allows Health New Zealand to recruit the medical workforce Aotearoa needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Senior doctors voted by 3165 votes to 558 to strike.<\/p>\n
ASMS and Health New Zealand have been locked in negotiations for over a year. Senior doctors went on a 24-hour strike in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTo show our appreciation and to give back to the community we have done fundraising while on strike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[19793,19792,19796,4749,19789,5988,12506,134,527,3274,1362,9878,111,139,9709,69,6840,6293,19794,15225,3109,4477,19795,97,1886,165,61,19790,19791,5977,1533,4741],"class_list":["post-18044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-19793","tag-appreciate","tag-available","tag-childrens","tag-donate","tag-families","tag-gisborne","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hospitals","tag-made","tag-monday","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nurses","tag-nz","tag-oncology","tag-patients","tag-planet","tag-presented","tag-public","tag-striking","tag-sunshine","tag-supermarket","tag-support","tag-their","tag-to","tag-vouchers","tag-ward","tag-which","tag-will","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}