By Mary Longmore
June 25, 2025
More than a 100 perioperative nurses, health-care assistants (HCAs) and hospital colleagues and supporters turned out onto the streets outside Whangārei Hospital yesterday in a 12-hour rolling strike.
Read more... ‘They’re crushing us’ — perioperative nurses take to the picket line
By Kaitiaki coeditors
June 23, 2025
About 100 NZNO perioperative nurses and health-care assistants (HCAs) at Whangārei Hospital are set to strike tomorrow over what they say are chronic and ongoing staff shortages.
Read more... Perioperative nurses in Whangārei to strike over unsafe staffing
By Mary Longmore
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
By Troy Stewart
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
By Mary Longmore
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
By Mary Longmore
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
By Mary Longmore
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.
Read more... Extra buck an hour offer ‘insulting’, say community nurses as they go back out on strike
By Mary Longmore
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
By Mary Longmore
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
By Mary Longmore
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.
Read more... Nurses turn out for striking senior doctors
By Mary Longmore
June 7, 2023
‘Disheartened’ but resolute nurses, midwives and kaiāwhina are not ruling out industrial action after a resounding rejection of Te Whatu Ora’s proposal for an offer.
Read more... Strike action not ruled out as nurses overwhelmingly reject Te Whatu Ora’s proposal for offer
By Mary Longmore
May 24, 2023
Gisborne Hospital ward 5 nurses and health-care assistants are jubilant over winning the right to strike for safer conditions and say it opens the door for other nurses struggling in unsafe conditions to take action.
Read more... ‘This is for every other nurse in New Zealand’ — Gisborne ward 5 nurses celebrate right to strike over safety fears
By Mary Longmore
May 21, 2023
Gisborne Hospital nurses say they’re not surprised by Te Whatu Ora’s move to try and block their strike with legal action.
Read more... ‘They’re stabbing us in the back’ — Gisborne Hospital moves to block ward 5 nurses’ strike
By Mary Longmore
May 16, 2023
Nursing staff at Gisborne Hospital’s ward 5 feel they have no choice but to take strike action this month, after worsening conditions have left them and patients increasingly unsafe.
Read more... ‘We’ve been rolling over too long, we’re not going to do it anymore’ — Gisborne nurses to strike
By co-editors Cate Macintosh and Mary Longmore
October 7, 2022
Primary health and Plunket members walked off the job, and onto the streets, to escalate their demand for pay parity with hospital colleagues.
Read more... Primary health nurses take their message to the streets, the Government, and the Minister
By Ben Basevi
August 10, 2022
NZNO members went on strike last year and won — alongside pay increases — an agreement that employers return to safe staffing levels.
Read more... What you can do about unsafe staffing on your ward