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	News Latest News Workforce Issues Not New to Nursing 11 June 2008 Employers and Union United: Pay Parity Necessary for Maori and Iwi Primary Health 29 May 2008 Palliative Care Concerns Highlight Need to Provide Ongoing Education 28 May 2008 Good Employers Reap the Rewards 23 May 2008 Healthcare Investment Must Deliver Safe Care 23 May 2008 Nurse Practitioner Skills Wasted 10 April 2008 Public Health Bill Good But Needs Improvement 8 April 2008 NZNO backs Health and Disability Commissioner's Report 26 February 2008 Nurses Support Nationwide Hospital Safety System 20 February 2008 Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand 28 January 2008 Nursing Journal Celebrates Its Centenary 24 January 2008 Maori and Iwi Health Care Workers Call for Pay Parity 21 December 2007 Collectivised Nursing Workforce Now 40,000 Strong 18 December 2007 Aged Care Workers Winning as One 14 December 2007 Public Can Trust Nurses To Keep Them Safe 6 December 2007 Listen up, Capital and Coast. Keep your District Nurses! 28 November 2007 Bringing Tikanga to Industrial Relations 27 November 2007 Ryman Announces Record Profit, Workers Wait for Wage Rise 25 November 2007 Where Are Taxpayer Dollars Going in Aged Care? 19 November 2007 Nurses Organisation Looks Forward Positive Relationship With New Minister 1 November 2007 Aged Care Workers’ Wages Withheld 17 October 2007 GP Fee Hoopla Overlooks Nurses’ Potential 4 October 2007 Quality Care: Respecting Our Elderly 1 October 2007 Collaborative Bargaining Gets Results 14 September 2007 Positive Collective Bargaining Belies HCPNZ Position 3 September 2007 Archived News 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2007 Nurses Call off Strike in Fiji 10 August 2007 Shared Action on Safe Staffing: Healthy Workplaces 8 August 2007 Nurses in Struggle against Domestic Violence 1 August 2007 Flexible Working Legislation Means Safer Hospitals 30 July 2007 Private Businesses Providing Public Healthcare Must Engage in Sustainable Employment Relations 18 July 2007 NZNO disappointed at Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill's failure 17 July 2007 Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand prepares for its centenary 12 July 2007 Good News for Many Enrolled Nurses 4 July 2007 Aged Care Workforce Highlights Staff Shortages on Shortest Day 21 June 2007 Collective bargaining the only way to solve aged care pay crisis 29 May 2007 International Nurses Day: A Commitment to Quality Healthcare 11 May 2007 Nurses Campaign for Traditional Kiwi Values 7 May 2007 Primary Health Workforce Ratifies NZ’s largest MECA 7 May 2007 Funding Mechanism Clearly Still Required 2 May 2007 Campaigning Pays Off for Unionised Aged Care Workers 1 May 2007 Statement Regarding comments by Dr Michael Bassett 27 April 2007 Impending Nursing Shortage Must Be Addressed 23 April 2007 Safe Staffing Vital to Providing Essential Care 12 April 2007 Consultation Crucial on Direction of District Nursing 3 April 2007 Laboratory Decision Welcome 21 March 2007 Poorest Hit Hardest By Nursing Shortage 20 March 2007 Nurses Kick Off Fair Play Campaign 8 March 2007 Historic Meeting of Minds to Deliver on Primary Health Initiative 7 March 2007 Delivery Mechanism the Key to Raising Aged Care out of Poverty 21 February 2007 Student Loan Rules Deprive New Zealand of Skilled, Experienced Nurses. 8 February 2007 2006 Palliative Care Funding Should Deliver Pay Parity for Hospice Nurses 22 December 2006 Unions Deliver Early Christmas Present for Aged Care Workers 20 December 2006 Nurses Pleased with Plunketline Support 18 December 2006 Stop the Aged Care Crisis! 13 December 2006 NZ’s largest MECA settled 7 December 2006 Time for Canterbury DHB to Take Responsibility 27 November 2006 Nurses Appalled by Canterbury DHB Suggestion 13 November 2006 Flexible Working Hours Vital To New Zealand Health 7 November 2006 Public Sector Nurses Initiate Bargaining for New MECA 6 November 2006 NZNO Welcomes Neonatal Unit Report 6 October 2006 International Day of the Older Person: Aged Care Funding Petition Launched 2 October 2006 Practice Nurses Bear the Brunt of Waiting List Cull 11 September 2006 Picket Waitemata DHB 13 September 12.30PM 11 September 2006 Picket Auckland Hospital Park Road 7th September 8.30am 1 September 2006 NZNO Backs NDU Members 31 August 2006 Increased Role of Primary Health Threatened by Pay Gap with DHBs 24 July 2006 Winter of Discontent For Aged Care 13 July 2006 Two Big Cheeses Chalk Up their Role in Changing Nursing History 4 July 2006 Fair Pay at last for Public Hospital Nursing Staff 30 June 2006 Health Workers Must Be Protected In An Epidemic 22 June 2006 Nurses Organisation Backs Call For Aged Care Inquiry 19 June 2006 Safe Staffing Committee Report Expected to Make Lasting Improvements 9 June 2006 View Committee of Inquiry's Report 8 June 2006 Wrangling Over GP Fees Shows Need For Targeted Funding for Pay 31 May 2006 Practice Nurses Reconfirm Support for Pay Parity Campaign 22 May 2006 Budget Leaves Aged Care Out in the Cold 18 May 2006 Media Statement Regarding Images of Caregiving published in Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand 18 May 2006 Unsafe Staffing Puts Lives At Risk in Aged Care 12 May 2006 Safe Staffing Saves Lives 11 May 2006 Nurses Organisation Salutes Dedication and Professionalism of Midwives - International Midwives Day - May 5 5 May 2006 Nurses Organisation Backs PlunketLine Petition 5 May 2006 Affirmation of Health System Welcomed, but Further Investment in Workforce Needed 2 May 2006 Primary Health Workforce Are Seeing Red Over Pay Gap 1 May 2006 Closing Primary Health Pay Gap is Key to Ensuring Healthy Communities 12 April 2006 NZNO Deplores Loss of PlunketLine Service 10 April 2006 Hospice Nurses Seek Support From Local Communities 29 March 2006 Minimum Wage Increase Won’t Fix Pitifully Low Pay In Aged Care 29 March 2006 Paid Parental Leave Should Apply to Parents Involved in Whaangai Adoptions 17 March 2006 Plunket Settlement Leads The Way For Pay Parity in Primary Health 14 March 2006 Auckland DHB Chair’s Claim ‘Outrageous’ 2 March 2006 Fairly Paid and Adequately Staffed Nursing Workforce Vital to Health Sector Productivity 23 February 2006 New Survey Shows Nursing Recruitment Crisis Looms in Primary Health 22 February 2006 Flexible Working Hours Essential for Women Workers Caring Around the Clock 16 February 2006 Plunket Moves To Pay Parity 7 February 2006 Corporate Grip Tightens On Aged Care 31 January 2006 NZNO Backs Call To Make Poverty Pay Rates History 24 January 2006 2005 Minimum Wage Increase Puts Pressure On Aged Care Scrooges 21 December 2005 Massive MECA Negotiations to Pave the Way for Pay Parity for Primary Health Nursing Workforce 19 December 2005 “Value Our Work” Say Primary Health Nursing Workforce 15 December 2005 Temperatures Rising in Primary Health – Pay Parity for Primary Health Petition Presentation 12 December 2005 Where will Extra Nurses come from to Stop the Gaps in Primary Health? 12 December 2005 Guardian Healthcare Refuses to Share Bumper Profits With Hardworking Staff 5 December 2005 Major Milestone in Fair Pay Campaign 29 November 2005 Wellington Nurses Celebrate Proud History 21 November 2005 Message of Solidarity from NZNO to ANF 15 November 2005 Medical Fears Regarding Nurse Prescribing Groundless 14 November 2005 Funding Certainty Must Bring Aged Care Employers Back to the Table 7 November 2005 NZNO Tribute to Rod Donald 7 November 2005 Remember Commitments to Caregivers when Rewarding Top Earners 26 October 2005 Aged Care Employers using Government Underfunding as Excuse to Underpay 20 October 2005 Striking Presbyterian Support Workers have support of the Union Movement 20 October 2005 NZNO Looks Forward to Working with Health Minister for Fair Pay in Aged Care & Primary Health 20 October 2005 Strike Action In Southern Presbyterian Support Aged Care To Go Ahead 20 October 2005 Southern Strike Action Planned In Presbyterian Support 17 October 2005 Staffing Levels in Aged Care Below Ministry Guidelines 3 October 2005 Hundreds of Aged-Care Workers to Converge on Aotea Square 28 September 2005 Guardian Strike On As Mediation Fails 23 September 2005 New Zealand Nurses Organisation AGM and Conference 19 September 2005 NZNO Welcomes Cullen Commitment to Aged Care Funding 15 September 2005 NZNO Welcomes Move to Extend Nurse Prescribing 13 September 2005 Equality Needed to Eliminate Poverty 9 September 2005 More - Not Less – Investment Needed in State Sector 8 September 2005 National’s Aged Care Policy Won’t Fix the Pay Problems 8 September 2005 Nurse Maude Strike To Go Ahead 8 September 2005 Tax Cuts have National Health Policy Running on Empty 6 September 2005 New President for NZNO 2 September 2005 Nurses Support Health and Wellness Checks 30 August 2005 The Health Risk from National’s IR Policies 30 August 2005 Aged Care Funding Swallowed Up In Tax Cuts For Top Earners 25 August 2005 Historic Step Towards Pay Parity For Primary Health Nurses 25 August 2005 Canterbury’s Nurse Maude Staff To Strike For Parity 25 August 2005 Beware the Stranger Bearing Gifts 23 August 2005 National’s Primary Health Approach 'Grave Concern' 15 August 2005 Soldarity Message to Striking Fiji Nurses 5 August 2005 Annette King to take pay parity message to government 5 August 2005 Primary Health Conference 5 & 6 August 3 August 2005 NZNO Challenges Parties Over Aged Care 2 August 2005 Labour’s Student Loan Policy Works for Women & Nurses 27 July 2005 New Graduate Nursing Programmes 13 July 2005 Radiation Technologists Withdraw Strike Notice 23 May 2005 Government Fails to Deliver on Aged 20 May 2005 Filipino Nurses Suffer Abuse and Exploitation 18 May 2005 International Nurses Day: May 12 12 May 2005 “Desperate” Residential Age-Care Sector 11 May 2005 DHB Radiographers to Strike 10 May 2005 Primary Health Care Pay Parity Campaign Launch 9 May 2005 Student Debt A Major Issue For Nurses 29 April 2005 Taking It To The Streets 14 April 2005 Clinical Nurse Managers Section Launch 13 April 2005 NZNO Membership Leaps 1 April 2005 Work-Life Bill Good For Nursing 18 March 2005 Caregivers' Week 2005 16 March 2005 Ratification of DHB Settlement 25 February 2005 Treaty Relevance to Nursing 25 February 2005 Fair Share for Aged Care Campaign Launch 8 February 2005 PM Confirms Aged Care As Top Priority 3 February 2005 Tribute to Bill Andersen 28 January 2005 2004 MECA Settlement 16 December 17 December 2004 Summerset Members Reject 1% Offer 16 December 2004 Health Committee Backs Call for Caregiver Training 2 December 2004 Resolution In Sight Over EN Title 2 December 2004 Aged Care Funding Crisis 3 November 2004 Superannuation Annnoucement 3 November 2004 National MECA Negotiations 8 October 8 October 2004 NZNO Calls For End To Caregivers' Low Pay 6 October 2004 National MECA Negotiations 1 October 4 October 2004 International Day of Older Persons 1 October 2004 MECA Negotiaions 23_09_04 30 September 2004 Campaign Support From ICN 22 September 2004 Suffrage 2004 20 September 2004 NZNO Membership Hits High 14 September 2004 MECA Update 8 _09 10 September 2004 MECA Negotiations 8 September 8 September 2004 Nurse Maude Strike On Monday 27 August 2004 Capital & Coast ED Staffing Crisis 23 August 2004 Nurse Maude Strike To Go Ahead 19 August 2004 Nurse Maude Strike Set For 30th august 13 August 2004 Parklands Members To Picket 12 August 2004 National MECA Negotiations 11 August 11 August 2004 Aged Care in Trouble in Horowhenua 10 August 2004 Nurse Maude Members Vote to Strike 6 August 2004 NZ Reliant on Overseas Nurses 5 August 2004 30 July MECA Talks Continue 30 July 2004 Presbyterian Support Backtracks On Pay Offer 19 July 2004 MECA Negotiations 13 July 14 July 2004 Enrolled Nurse Day - 30 June 29 June 2004 National Petition Result 1 June 2004 Budget Signals Money For Nurses' and Midwives' Pay 27 May 2004 Nurses Vote To Bargain Nationally For Fair Pay 24 May 2004 Budget needs to recognise caregivers 18 May 2004 Government Pay Equity report 18 May 2004 International Nurses Day May 12 04 18 May 2004 National Ballot Begins 10th May 9 May 2004 International Midwives Day 6 May 2004 NZNO Donation On The Way to Niue Nurses 2 April 2004 Lower North Island Members Vote To Accept New MECA 1 April 2004 Doctors' Talks Highlight DHB Underfunding 31 March 2004 Make Caregivers Count! 26 March 2004 New Vote On Lower North Island MECA 10 March 2004 Pay Equity Heads Government Action Plan 9 March 2004 NZNO Responds To Brash 8 March 2004 Petition Launched On Women's Day 8 March 2004 DHB Budget Blowouts Threaten Patient Safety 4 March 2004 Back to Table For LNI MECA 1 March 2004 Safe Staffing Booklet Launched 1 March 2004 Lower Nth Island meca strike now off 9 February 2004 Lower North Island DHB Members Set To Strike 30 January 2004 Cervical Smear Takers' Training Grant extended 26 January 2004 Nurses Driven Offshore Too 13 January 2004 NZ Nurses Support For Niue 12 January 2004 2003 Go Purple Day - 10 December 10 December 2003 ERA Amendments 4 December 2003 Support For Action On Child Poverty 27 November 2003 Strong local support for Redwood Lodge strike 19 November 2003 On the way to fair pay 19 November 2003 Redwood Lodge staff set to strike 19 November 2003 Minimum levels of staffing needed in aged care 18 November 2003 Fair pay petition - 2003 17 November 2003 Proposed settlement for Oamaru nurses 17 November 2003 Senior nurses pay dispute settled 3 November 2003 Striking Oamaru nurses 3 November 2003 Solidarity for strikers at Oamaru hospital 23 October 2003 Underpaid Oamaru nurses strike for parity 20 October 2003 Underpaid and undervalued aged care workers 30 September 2003 Canterbury nurses ratify pay offer 29 September 2003 Joint statement NZNO and Sth Island DHBs 29 September 2003 NZNO Launches new website 25 September 2003 SI Meca Ratified 24 September 2003 Mandated nurse to patient ratios 24 September 2003 membership hits historic high 23 September 2003 Negotiations Underway For Southern Nurses... 23 September 2003 Mediation For S.I. Nurses Adjourns Overnight 23 September 2003 South Island Nurses and Midwives To Attend Report 23 September 2003 Negotiations Continue For South Island Nurses, Mid 23 September 2003 Attempt to Avert S.I. Nurses' Strike Unsuccessful 23 September 2003 South Island Nurses and Midwives To Attend Report 23 September 2003 Solving Emergency Department Nursing Shortages 23 September 2003 Senior Nurses Reject Unacceptable Pay offer 23 September 2003 Senior Nurses’ To Consider Pay Offer 23 September 2003 Senior Nurses 23 September 2003 Government Step In the Right Direction On Nurses S 23 September 2003 Rest home strike largest in fifteen years 23 September 2003 NZNO Primary Health Care Nurses Conference: Embrac 23 September 2003 It’s Official – New Zealanders Think Nurses Are Un 23 September 2003 Performance Payment Tops Nurses' Annual Salary 23 September 2003 DHB Dithering On Recognition Of Local Nurses' Skil 23 September 2003 DHB Dithering On Recognition Of Local Nurses' Skil 23 September 2003 Canterbury Nurses and Midwives Negotiations Adjour 23 September 2003 Report Confirms Better Working Conditions Needed I 23 September 2003 Important Step Towards Protecting Health Workers 23 September 2003 Flu Factor Stretches Nurses To The Limit 23 September 2003 Ministry Advice On Enrolled Nurses Flawed 23 September 2003 Canterbury Nurses to Attend Ratification Meetings 23 September 2003 Canterbury Nurses to Attend Mediation Report Back 23 September 2003 Canterbury Nurses and Midwives... 23 September 2003 Launch and Diary 18 September 2003 South Island settlement 17 sept 17 September 2003 Report Confirms Better Working Conditions Needed 15 September 2003 Report Confirms Better Working Conditions Needed 15 September 2003 Canterbury Nurses and Midwives In Mediation Tomorr 15 September 2003 NZNO makes the case for a significant pay increase 11 June 2003 New research shows debt deepens nursing crisis 11 April 2003
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