April 2025
April 3, 2025
Staff say they fear for residents after one of the country’s largest aged-care providers, Bupa, this week announced it was pushing ahead with roster changes that will see staff at 17 of its homes lose hours and flexibility.
Read more... Bupa goes ahead with cuts to hours, a day after protest hīkoi
April 2025
March 28, 2025
Aged-care workers are preparing to hīkoi from the Auckland Domain to Bupa’s head office in Newmarket next Tuesday, a day before the profit-making global company reveals whether it’s going ahead with cuts to worker hours at 17 care homes around the country.
Read more... Bupa aged-care workers prepare to hīkoi in protest over proposed cuts
March 2025
March 10, 2025
After 23 years working at Bupa’s Sunset facility, enrolled nurse (EN) Epenesa Mutimuti says she will walk away if a proposal to cut staff and hours goes ahead.
Read more... ‘They’ve got no heart for people’ — hīkoi planned over Bupa’s proposed cuts
March 2025
March 3, 2025
A family of unionists hit the picket line recently to support striking staff at Bupa’s South Auckland home in Wattle Downs — led by their 87-year-old mum who lives there.
Read more... 87-year-old resident takes to Bupa picket line in South Auckland
March 2025
February 14, 2025
New Zealand’s largest rest-home owner Oceania Healthcare boasts in its latest financial report upward arrows on all key economic outputs from total comprehensive income to operating cashflow to assets. Every output has a good story for its board of directors and shareholders. But…
Read more... Oceania Healthcare: Company books in good shape, but workers face more struggles
March 2025
February 13, 2025
Former mental health nurse Annelie Gannaway explains why the hospice she works in is not a sad place.
Read more... Former NZ mental health nurse finds peace working at holistic Swedish hospice
February 2025
January 31, 2025
About 20 nursing and carer staff at Oceania’s Lady Allum Retirement Village in Auckland’s leafy Milford suburb carried out an impromptu picket yesterday, after a proposed restructure.
Read more... Impromptu picket at Auckland retirement home over proposed roster changes
September 2024
August 28, 2024
Retired Wellington nurse Jiff Stewart spoke at Wednesday’s picket against staff cuts outside retirement village owners’ $2000-a-head conference. This is her kōrero.
September 2024
August 28, 2024
Retirees, families and supporters turn out to picket $2000-a-head retirement village conference as aged care staff and care hours are being cut.
Read more... Residents and families picket retirement village owners’ conference
September 2024
August 13, 2024
Wellington aged-care facility Village at the Park has shaved 42 hours off proposed nursing and caregiving cutbacks, after residents rallied behind staff with a picket and petition.
Read more... Wellington aged-care residents and staff win ‘faint concession’ after picket, petition
August 2024
July 19, 2024
Upset residents and their families and friends turned out to support staff striking over a proposal to cut 400 care hours a week at a Wellington aged care facility.
July 2024
June 14, 2024
After two years of limbo, thousands of care and support workers this week lodged a claim for equal pay with the Employment Relations Authority (ERA).
July 2023
June 20, 2023
Caring for Aotearoa’s ageing rainbow community and the importance of “flourishing” in aged care — for both nurses and residents — were among topics at the recent NZNO college of gerontology nurses conference.
May 2023
April 18, 2023
On Saturday, over 2000 nurses and health care assistants around the country hit the streets to demand action on the health staffing crisis. For many, it was also a chance to seek solace with their fellow exhausted colleagues while facing another winter of chronic short-staffing.
Read more... Aged-care nurse makes heartfelt plea at Day of Action
