New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Topics
- Nurses' strikes and pay dispute 2025Quiet since 17 Sep 2025
- Public sector strike October 2025Quiet since 23 Oct 2025
- Middlemore Hospital staff assaultQuiet since 11 Jan 2025
- Pay equity law changesQuiet since 18 Aug 2025
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October 2026
- Braemar Hospital staff strike over pay dispute
- Private sector received 80% of recent public health funding increases
- Grace Hospital staff strike over cost of living concerns
November 2025
October 2025
- Nurses and midwives vote for further strike action over staffing levels
- Iwi and unions protest coalition Government in Whanganui
- Public sector workers strike for better pay and working conditions
- Aged care sector facing crisis due to short staffing
- Nurses and midwives to join October public sector strike action
September 2025
- Coordinated public sector strike planned for 23 October
- Nurses turn backs on Health Minister during Wellington conference
- Nurses and midwives strike for second day over pay and staffing
- Health NZ apologises to nurses' union over withheld staffing data
- More than 36,000 nurses on two-day strike action
+3 - Health NZ acted unlawfully in refusing to release staffing data
August 2025
- Prime Minister Luxon to address media in Christchurch
- Five unions take government to court over pay equity law changes
+2 - Christchurch Hospital nurses strike over staff shortages and bargaining breakdown
July 2025
- Nurses go on nationwide strike for better pay and staffing
- Nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants strike nationwide+4
- Christchurch Hospital asked families to help during staff shortage
- Student nurses and midwives report heavy workload and financial pressure
- Nurses and health workers vote for 24-hour strike at end of July
February 2025
- Oceania Healthcare staff fear safety risks due to planned staff cuts
- More Māori nurses urgently needed in New Zealand health system
January 2025
- Union considers stab-proof vests following nurse attack in Rotorua+2
- Security to increase at Middlemore Hospital emergency department
- Man charged after unprovoked attack on Middlemore Hospital nurse