More coverage of the NZ Professional Firefighters Union 10-hour strikes features in today’s Union News, including interviews with two NZPFU staff in a 1News story. And the PSA takes legal action against the Solicitor-General’s proposed restructure at Crown Law.
Union coverage
- ASMS – Christchurch private hospital Forte Health’s $100m expansion: From five to nine operating theatres | NZ Herald
- ASMS, PSA – Regular IT outages impacting patient care, surveys find, but minister dismisses it as political | RNZ
- NZCTU – New jobless figures: Unemployment rate rises to 5.7% | RNZ
- NZCTU – Same inflation, different choices: Australia protected jobs while Luxon’s Government cut them -The Daily Blog
- NZNO – Election 2026: Nurses’ union asks why Middlemore Hospital has no on-site voting booth | NZ Herald
- NZPFU – Leaking Trucks & $500k Self-Investigations | 1News (YouTube link)
- NZPFU – FENZ Big Strike Planned For 10 Hours | What’s On Invers
- PSA – Next government to start to see a $1.3 billion cut to benefit spending | The Post (paywalled)
- PSA – PSA takes legal action against Solicitor-General over Crown Law restructure | Stuff
Employment
- Labour hire director to pay $203k over migrant worker fees, underpayments | 1News
- Residency, overstayers and asylum seekers: Parties set out their stalls | RNZ
- Woman fired by sister after family argument awarded more than $21,000 | Stuff
- Concrete company fired driver for leaving licence in parked car before test | Stuff
- Defence partner lost paid parental leave after taking job on soldier’s deployment | Stuff
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