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While thousands of striker nurses are waving placards across the country, their union plans a return to the negotiating table .
Strike hour at 7 am after voting to reject the latest DHB offer earlier this week.
But Memo Musa, executive director of the New Zealand Nurses Organization, who has joined the picketers in Wellington, pledges to return to the negotiating table. 19659006] Nurses and their supporters protest outside the Timaru Hospital while the New Zealand Nurses Organization Strike takes place "title =" "src =" https : //resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/q/r/n/u/v/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620×349.1qrnmb.png/1531345926292.jpg "class =" photoborder " />
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On Wednesday afternoon, DHB spokeswoman Helen Mason publicly criticized the nurses' decision to abandon the tools before recommendations were received from the hospital. the authority of labor relations.
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The ERA Facilitator was responsible for leading the final discussions between two parties, aimed at trying to break the stalemate and finally
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Memo Musa picket line in Wellington for the national strike.
Musa felt that Mason's criticism of the NZNO for choosing to continue the strike before the facilitator's recommendations were received was "unfair".
However, he promised the organization's commitment to reach an agreement and said that NZNO "We will resume where we left off, we are committed to finding a solution to this bargaining deadlock, we will come back to the DHB, "he added.
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Nurses strike in front of Hutt Hospital
When asked what a resolution would look like, Musa got this answer: "I think we need to see what is the offer on the table and there may be an increase and improved funding to solve some of the issues that we still seem to be hanging over. "
Cee Payne, Manager of Industrial Services for New Zealand facilitation talks with DHB.
Speaking at the picket line in Wellington, Payne said the NZNO felt that he had no choice but to quit the job.
"We were very clear with employers that we had no choice yesterday. Members said very clearly that they wanted this day of action, "said Payne
" Listen, we kept the door open. We have finished trading and we are going back around the table, I hope that next week.
"We have some thoughts to make, we need to be considerate and talk to our members about what they want us to do next."
Payne, who participated in the facilitation process, did not believe that the strike was going to erode the goodwill between the NZNO and the DHB
"The process was respectful. We have the same problem – there is more money on the table. We just have to keep talking.
"I think we need the public to come and stay with us as nurses – not having the impression that we are letting them down, we are fighting for a quality public health system here, "said Payne
. Interim Prime Minister Winston Peters said the government was "very disappointed" with the progress of the strike.
"We went as far as we can as a government, we got a negotiated arrangement that we inherited – the nurses had nine raw years," he said.
"We doubled the supply We took it to half a billion, plus 500 more nurses and changed the salary range in terms of promotion.
" C & D Is the best we can do in six months and a budget, and that's where things go. 19659004] "The government's offer would announce the largest increase in salaries for nurses in 14 long years," he said.
On Wednesday morning, Finance Minister Grant Robertson said that there was more money for nurses. Negotiations with nurses would resume Thursday, Robertson said.
"These negotiations have been going on for over a year and we think we are doing everything we can, but we will continue to talk because that is what you do in a negotiation." [19659033] – Stuff
