Strikes

The Hollywood writers and actors strikes continue with no end in sight. The ripple effects are being felt in New Zealand and Culture 101 explores what this means for audience viewing.  Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

Secondary school teachers nationwide will be striking on March 29. Following that they are planning rolling strikes, where different year levels will not be taught on various days.

The Post-Primary… Video, Audio

UK correspondent Lara Spirit joins Kathryn to look at the massive strikes which have hit the UK overnight, with schools, trains, universities and border checks affected. It's the biggest single-day of… Audio

UK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Kathryn to talk about plans to temporarily hold prisoners in 400 police cells due to overcrowding in jails, strikes set to hit the ambulance service - as well as… Audio

The Health Minister Andrew Little has written to District Health Boards and unions to invite them to start pay equity negotiations as soon as possible. Cabinet has approved funding for the agreement -… Audio

Midwives in Auckland and Northland walked off the job and onto the streets - kicking off consecutive days of rolling strikes across the country.

About 1,500 union members are protesting following… Audio

Rolling strikes and marches by midwives are underway throughout Aotearoa. In the coming week, about 1500 hospital midwives will down tools for eight-hour strikes, which are the result of last week's… Audio

Midwives are planning a strike and march on Monday.To explain the way the strikes are being co-ordinated to make sure patients are still safe while midwives march, MERAS co-leader Caroline Conroy… Audio

Nurses are complaining they've been blindsided by a district health board move to take them to court over their next lot of strike action. Last week they rejected the latest pay offer by the district… Audio

Thirty thousand nurses will take part in an eight hour strike having overwhelmingly rejected district health boards' latest offer on pay and conditions. Audio

As 30,000 nurses nationwide prepare to to walk off the job tomorrow, Australian medical agencies are actively recruiting some of them. Negotiations between the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and… Audio

Thousands of children have abandoned their classes for the day, all in the name of climate action.

School Strikes 4 Climate were held in a number of big cities for the first time since September… Video, Audio

Thousands of teachers chanted, shouted and marched in towns and cities around the country today in the first ever joint strike by primary and secondary school teachers. They say the government's offer… Video, Audio

Students at an Auckland college held a lie-in this afternoon in preparation for the second nationwide student strike for climate action. Video, Audio

Teachers are about to strike, fast food workers have been on strike and now staff at the retail giant Farmers are preparing to strike. Audio

Associate Education Minister Tracey Martin says she's not sure who is responsible for raising teachers' pay expectations to unrealistic levels - but it certainly isn't this government. She spoke with… Video, Audio

At the end of the second day of a five day strike by thousands of junior doctors who have walked off the job around New Zealand, we speak to David Munro from the Resident Doctors Association. Audio