While the election results may be in limbo till the end of the month, the union movement fights on. Today’s Union News includes coverage of industrial action, the PSA taking legal action, and RNZ analysing whether going on strike really works.
Union coverage
- ASMS – Northland hospital transfer changes could delay 111 calls, union warns | Northern Advocate
- NZCTU – Business, union leaders seek stability; National losses a blow | NBR (paywalled)
- NZNO – Nurses’ union asks why Middlemore Hospital has no on-site voting booth | NZ Herald
- NZNO – Striking nurses face pay cut for wearing purple | Waikato Times (paywalled)
- NZPFU – Calls for govt to step in before firefighter strikes | ODT (also RNZ)
- PSA – PSA seeks urgent injunction to halt Crown Law restructure | The Daily Blog
- PSA – Govt spends over $45 million axing Kāinga Ora workers as it guts social housing – PSA | The Daily Blog
- PSA – Union takes health authorities to court over forensic mental health unit understaffing | RNZ
- PSA – Health NZ being taken to Employment Relations Authority over ‘dangerous’ staffing at mental health unit | NZ Herald (includes audio)
- PSA – Duane Leo | National Secretary of the PSA – Waatea News
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