Fair Share for Aged Care is an exciting campaign run jointly by the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and Service and Food Workers Union: Nga Ringa Tota.
It's a campaign to win fair pay and decent conditions in aged care through collective bargaining. To do that we need to increase the number of union members. When we have strength of numbers, we have a strong collective voice.
We need lots more workers in aged care to join the union to be successful.
Oceania aged care workers need your support
Right now aged care workers from the Oceania chain are attending stop work meetings. They need your support.
These workers deserve a to earn a living wage and the CEO of Oceania, Guy Eady, needs to keep getting this message loud and clear!
Send him an ecard in support of under-paid and under-valued aged care sector workers at Oceania.
Many Oceania workers who care for our most vulnerable citizens are being paid only 11 cents more than the minimum wage. Let Oceania boss Guy Eady know that you want to him to value these workers as much as you do.
The Union Report
7 May 2012
View The Union Report YouTube clip - see the first segment about the aged care sector (at aproximately 0:58 seconds.)
Support grows for action
21 March 2012
Over four separate days of strike action, SFWU and NZNO Oceania members have picketed, marched, handed out leaflets and rallied outside Oceania's headquarters.
Find out what's happening next.
Oceania strike action grows
16 March 2012
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota (SFWU) employed by Oceania have voted to continue their industrial and community campaign for a fair share of aged care.
Read the media release.
Members take action
01 March 2012
Members from NZNO and SFWU who work for Oceania took strike action on Thursday 1 March. These workers are still in the midst of their industrial action.
See below for some of the media coverage so far. Keep checking back for more!
Photos from the Wellington picket
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66626658@N02/sets/72157629120454928/
Media coverage
TV3 News
http://www.3news.co.nz/No-money-to-meet-unions-demands---Oceania/tabid/370/articleID/244785/Default.aspx
David Waits’ interview on TV One
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/rest-home-workers-walk-off-job-4749195/video
Other coverage
http://news.msn.co.nz/nationalnews/8427846/strikes-blamed-on-government-policies
http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/22454-rest-home-workers-go-on-strike.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/national/politics/6504404/MPs-residents-join-aged-care-workers-strike
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/rest-home-workers-walk-off-job-4749195
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/hutt-valley/6504097/Upper-Hutt-workers-on-strike-today
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10789011
http://www.3news.co.nz/Rest-home-workers-want-fair-share-for-aged-care/tabid/423/articleID/244726/Default.aspx
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/99746/rest-home-staff-begin-strike-action
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/13054420/aged-care-strike-government-blamed/
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/13049869/caregivers-supported-in-demand-for-fair-deal-ctu/
http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/green-mps-picket-line-support-aged-care-workers/5/116267
Latest Fair Share News - Autumn 2012 Issue
Inside this issue:
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Oceania strike: Fighting for a fair share for those who care
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What's happening with the Charter?
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Radius: Strikes needed
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Caregivers study days 2012
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Ros Jackson: Profile of a delegate
Download or view Fair Share News
Read Fair Share News - Autumn 2012 (PDF, 3 pages, 975KB)
Read Fair Share News - Spring 2011 (PDF, 4 pages, 800KB)
Read Fair Share News - Winter 2011 (PDF, 4 pages, 1.3MB)
We're asking the Government to properly fund aged care services in New Zealand.
Read about the Aged Care Charter (link)
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Use the web form below or complete the T-shirt Order form (Word) and email it to kalim@nzno.org.nz.