NZEI<\/p>\n
The NZ Education Institute\u2019s communications adviser, Kirsten McDougall, said 2000 Hawke\u2019s Bay primary and early-childhood teachers, principals, and support staff covered by its collective agreements would be striking.<\/p>\n
Members had chosen to strike because the Government\u2019s offers had not addressed their issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cEducators want to see all children supported in their education. There are still too many tamariki going without because of under-resourcing for teacher aides and learning support,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEducators also want to be properly valued, so that we\u2019re not losing more quality teachers to Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some schools in the area had already scheduled teacher-only days on Thursday ahead of the Hawke\u2019s Bay long weekend.<\/p>\n
NZNO<\/p>\n
The NZ Nurses Organisation said 2200 Hawke\u2019s Bay members would join more than 36,000 members nationwide in striking from 11am to 3pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n
NZNO Hawke\u2019s Bay delegate Noreen McCallan, a registered nurse at Hawke\u2019s Bay Hospital, said they were striking about the safety of their patients.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe became health workers because we want to care for people, but staff shortages have become overwhelming and exhausting for many of us.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur patients are suffering longer because we can\u2019t get to them as quickly as we should.\u201d<\/p>\n
PSA<\/p>\n
Public Service Association national secretary Fleur Fitzsimons said 539 members from the region would be striking, and hospital appointments would be affected.<\/p>\n
\u201cCritical services such as emergency care will be staffed appropriately. Other healthcare appointments are very likely to be delayed.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike their colleagues around the country, staff at Hawke\u2019s Bay Hospital and in community facilities around the region have been struggling with rising demand for their services and not enough staff to provide decent care.\u201d<\/p>\n
PPTA<\/p>\n
Post Primary Teachers\u2019 Association Te Wehengarua president Chris Abercrombie estimated about 800 of its Hawke\u2019s Bay members would be striking.<\/p>\n
\u201cThursday\u2019s strike action shows there is a high level of dissatisfaction among a range of public service workers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the Government doesn\u2019t start making decent offers, which go some way towards meeting the needs of the various sectors, then there will be more strike action.\u201d<\/p>\n
Association of Salaried Medical Specialists senior communications adviser Andrew Chick said none of its members would be striking outside of the main centres.<\/p>\n
The NZ Professional Firefighters Union would not be striking on Thursday, national secretary Wattie Watson said. However, some off-duty members would attend the rallies.<\/p>\n
Public Service Commissioner, Health NZ and Simeon Brown respond<\/p>\n
Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche has told RNZ he believes the latest pay offer for teachers is fair and fiscally responsible.<\/p>\n
He was disappointed at the decision to strike, which was at a \u201creally difficult time\u201d for students.<\/p>\n
Health NZ said planned strikes would affect \u201cthousands of patients\u201d and their care would be delayed for days before and after.<\/p>\n
Health Minister Simeon Brown earlier told RNZ that the strikes were \u201cdeliberate politicking\u201d.<\/p>\n
Strike and ride day<\/p>\n
The Hawke\u2019s Bay A&P Show\u2019s education day is the same day as the mega-strike. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s often a day when teachers take their classes to the T\u014dmoana Showgrounds to learn about rural life.<\/p>\n
Hawke\u2019s Bay A&P Society general manager Hannah Morrah said organisers were having to adapt with a \u2018Strike and Ride Day\u2019.<\/p>\n
There would still be an education day, and students would be provided with content they could navigate with individual caregivers.<\/p>\n
Students could learn about physics by taking advantage of two-for-one amusement ride ticket prices on Thursday, she said.<\/p>\n
Jack Riddell is a multimedia journalist with Hawke\u2019s Bay Today and has worked in radio and media in the UK, Germany, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZEI The NZ Education Institute\u2019s communications adviser, Kirsten McDougall, said 2000 Hawke\u2019s Bay primary and early-childhood teachers, principals,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65835,65836,64785,95,1561,6757,2550,65838,1976,134,78,5829,1535,65834,3607,111,43,139,69,6695,6649,10534,1305,544,4485,65837,18843,28050,61,65839,4478],"class_list":["post-86866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-65835","tag-65836","tag-aampp","tag-and","tag-bay","tag-bringing","tag-even","tag-halt","tag-hawkes","tag-health","tag-in","tag-many","tag-march","tag-megastrike","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-regions","tag-schools","tag-see","tag-show","tag-some","tag-strike","tag-surgeries","tag-teachers","tag-thursday","tag-to","tag-unsettling","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86866","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=86866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}