Issue: October 2020 vol 26 no 9

A second day of negotiations for NZNO members working at Lower Hutt’s Boulcott Hospital is scheduled for later this month.

Two days of negotiations for the national hospice multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) were due to be held in Wellington earlier this month.

NZNO and Family Planning were to attend mediation earlier this month after members rejected a proposed settlement.

Senior, Registered and enrolled nurses working for community health provider Access Healthcare were voting on whether to ratify an inaugural collective agreement (CA) as Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand went to press.

The Green Party has emerged on top in a Council of Trade Unions’ (CTU) assessment of the five major political parties’ industrial relations policies.

Achieving or maintaining pay parity with district health board (DHB) staff is a key claim across all NZNO’s current round of negotiations with major aged-care chains.

Reaching an enduring pay equity settlement for the country’s nurses is neither straightforward nor speedy. Rather, it’s like navigating a tortuous and unknown route, to a long-desired destination.

Anne-Maree Wagg, from the infection, prevention and control nurses’ college, will join Brent Doncliff as a college and section representative on NZNO’s membership committee.

The college of critical care nurses wants more support for nurses in New Zealand intensive care units (ICUs) to become fully qualified.