The straining of the health system dominates today’s Union News with articles on long wait times at hospitals and Health NZ cutting contracts of home support workers appearing across media outlets.
Union coverage
- ASMS – Health minister pulls out of senior doctors’ conference | The Post (paywalled)
- E Tū – Media Insider: Stuff job losses – leaked document reveals extent of newsroom cuts | NZ Herald
- E Tū, PSA – Health NZ contract cuts put 1200 Auckland home-support worker jobs at risk | NZ Herald
- NZNO – Some patients face 24-hour wait at Wellington Hospital emergency department | RNZ
- NZNO – Nurses v Health NZ: Our data interactive reveals the truth about hospital staffing | NZ Herald
- NZPA – Police Association: Unpaid suspension policy undermines presumption of innocence | NZ Herald
- NZPFU – Fire and Emergency to delay ‘planned upgrades and improvements’ in savings crunch | The Post (paywalled)
- PSA, NZNO – ‘Spiralling out of control’: Health workers on short-staffing impact | Waikato Times (paywalled)
- PSA – Union calls for continuity of care, as 1200 support workers face losing their jobs | RNZ
- Workers First – ‘Not here for a holiday’: What standards RSE workers should expect | RNZ
Employment
- Shane Jones accuses kiwifruit industry of ‘slave practices’, slams National over regional shakeup | RNZ
- Labour pledges $21m for Māori-led trades training
- Butcher wins $25k from Alliance Group for unjustified dismissal over prescription cannabis | The Press (paywalled)
- Women tell how political donor Chris Meehan sexually harassed them | Newsroom
- ‘Modern day slavery’: Gloriavale leavers file $40m lost wages and entitlements claim against Overseeing Shepherd | RNZ