June 2025
June 16, 2025
Thousands of nurses, midwives and kaiāwhina around the country have called on Te Whatu Ora to make them a better offer — or face strike action.
Read more... Back to the table — members call on Te Whatu Ora to make a better offer
June 2025
June 6, 2025
Extended 24-hour strike action could be on the cards next month, as nurses’ and other Te Whatu Ora health-care workers’ frustration spilled over at the start of nationwide union meetings this week.
Read more... Te Whatu Ora members consider ‘hard-hitting’ strike action as mass union meetings begin
May 2025
May 30, 2025
This Government knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing, says NZNO delegate Troy Stewart.
Read more... ‘Time to get noisy’ — Auckland nurse explains why he voted down Te Whatu Ora’s offer
March 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
November 2024
December 2, 2024
Nurses explain in their own words why they are striking. Te Whatu Ora NZNO members are embarking on an eight-hour-long strike tomorrow. Rolling strikes across Aotearoa follow in the next two weeks up to 20 December.
Nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora are desperate for people outside the health sector to understand just how seriously they’ve taken the decision to strike. They feel it is a last resort and felt like they had no other option because they fear for their patients’ safety after proposals raised in recent collective bargaining with Health NZ.
Communities in Aotearoa have been crying out for more staff to provide better care and a more culturally appropriate, equal health system
November 2024
November 18, 2024
Unhappy with Te Whatu Ora’s bargaining position, nurses and kaiāwhina have voted strongly to hold an eight-hour nationwide strike on December 3 followed by rolling district strikes.
Read more... Nurses and kaiāwhina vote to strike before Christmas
November 2024
October 21, 2024
Nursing students rallied around the country over the weekend in a passionate call for financial support to stem a drop-out rate of one in three.
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
August 5, 2024
Community nurses say they are “disgusted” with a pay offer of one more dollar an hour from their employer, Access Community Health.
August 2024
July 16, 2024
About 150 Access Community Health nursing staff went on strike around the country on this week, demanding the same pay and conditions as their Te Whatu Ora colleagues.
Read more... ‘We work just as hard’ — community nurses strike for the same pay as hospitals
June 2024
May 9, 2024
Nurses and kaiāwhina braving brutal near-zero temperatures in some places to speak up for safer staffing received warm support from the public as they rallied across the country today.
Read more... Nurses and kaiāwhina across Aotearoa brave chill winds to call for safer staffing
May 2024
May 8, 2024
From aged care to mental health, nurses and health-care assistants (HCAs) are rallying around the country tomorrow (May 9) for safer staffing ratios ahead of this month’s Budget 2024.
Read more... ‘It’s heart-breaking’ — nurses and kaiāwhina to rally across Aotearoa for safe staffing
January 2024
December 1, 2023
Te Whatu Ora nurses have described gruelling workplaces, rife with burnout, violence and unsafe staffing levels, as they turn out across the country to demand more investment in their workforce.
December 2023
November 22, 2023
After eight months of negotiations, two strikes, nationwide rallies and mediation, frontline nurses have finally voted to accept a new offer from national telehealth service Whakarongorau — calling off two looming strikes.
Read more... Whakarongorau’s telehealth nurses finally settle pay deal
November 2023
October 19, 2023
Telehealth nurses from crisis services like Healthline, ambulance triaging and 111 mental health response are considering two more strikes after rejecting the latest pay offer from employer Whakarongorau, which they say doesn’t reflect their value.
Read more... ‘Without us, there’s nothing’ — more strikes considered by telehealth nurses
November 2023
October 9, 2023
Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa–NZNO is taking legal action to support Gisborne Hospital ward 5 nurse Christine Warrander after hospital managers threatened her with disciplinary action over a social media post.
September 2023
September 8, 2023
Nurses who take calls around the clock from some of our most vulnerable have voted to go on a 24-hour strike next week, after an offer they describe as an effective pay cut.
Read more... Healthline and telehealth nurses to strike over pay ‘cut’ from profitable bosses
September 2023
September 6, 2023
‘Here come the nurses!’ was the appreciative cry from senior doctors striking outside Wellington Hospital yesterday as Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa — NZNO members spilled off the Newtown bus and took their place on the picket line beside their colleagues.
