Today’s Union News includes an outrageous story on hospital workers having to wait five months before an agreed pay rise kicks in. Sandra Grey, President, is also interviewed by Waatea News.
Union coverage
- ASMS – Health NZ unsure if private surgery outsourcing offers value for money | NZ Herald
- ASMS – 700 days with catheter, months waiting for ‘urgent’ cancer care on Southland urology waitlist | RNZ
- E Tu – Hospital workers face five-month wait for pay rise ahead of Christmas | 1News
- E Tū – Hospital staff wait five months for agreed pay rise to kick in | RNZ
- E Tū – Media Insider: News deserts and ‘zombie papers’: Stuff hits back | NZ Herald (paywalled)
- NZCTU – Sandra Grey CTU Te Kauae Kaimahi President | Waatea News
- NZCTU – The bad news on incomes which the coalition hasn’t been so keen to talk about | The Post (paywalled)
- NZNO – Plunket nurses say funding squeeze is putting babies at risk | The Post (paywalled)
- NZNO – Health NZ disputes Nurses’ union claim it is breaking staffing deal at Wellington ED | The Post (paywalled)
- Workers First – ‘Gut wrenching:’ Te Kūiti mill to close with more than 30 jobs on the line | Stuff
Employment
- Nurse suspended for a year after using fake references to get a job | Stuff
- Teaching Council under scrutiny as teacher charged with possessing objectionable material | RNZ
- Thousands of young people lose access to unemployment benefits | 1News
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