Nurses Strike

Nurses have more industrial action planned as frustration with shortages and pay boil over - what's behind the anger?  Audio

Striking Pasifika nurses demanding better connections with Pacific peoples from New Zealand's health system. Audio

The recent nurses' strike cost hospitals hundreds of thousands of dollars in staffing alone. About 30,000 nurses walked off wards on July 12 in a day-long strike over pay and staffing. Details… Audio

The nurses' 24 hour strike has just finished with nurses around the country now returning to work. Our reporter Nita Blake-Persen is outside Auckland Hospital and RNZ's health correspondent Karen… Audio

Nurses are returning to work as a 24-hour strike over staffing shortages and poor pay comes to an end. Yesterday about 30,000 nurses were on strike and many took to the streets to protest about their… Audio

Nurses around the country are about to return to work. Yesterday 30-thousand nurses walked off the job for 24 hours after their union and DHBs failed to reach agreement on pay and conditions. Our… Audio

A nurse unhappy with both the union and district health boards says she's ready to go on strike again to ensure their demands are met. Holly Wilson was one of the 5000 or so nurses nationwide required… Audio

NZNO spokesperson Cee Payne joins Checkpoint live to discuss the nurses strike, which starts at 7am tomorrow. Audio

The Nurses Unions says the only thing that will stop a planned strike is more money. The union has notified DHBs they intend to walk off the job on July 5 if mediation this week doesn't bring an… Audio

Energetic editioraliser Mike Hosking angered nurses this week by inflating their employers' pay offer - just after telling the media off for "lapping up press releases." Audio

Nurses have been offered a backdated 2 percent pay deal, a lump sum payment of $1050, pay equity from next year, and a commitment to better staffing, but for many that's not good enough. Audio