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  •   Home > News > Politics

    Nurses vote to take strike action amid what they say is a staffing crisis

    Nurses have voted to take strike action amidst what they call a staffing crisis


    The move to take industrial action is pending one last-ditch pay offer from DHBs - expected later today.

    Nurses Organisation industrial services manager Cee Payne says nurses should be paid more.

    She says they need a lift of about 11 percent to gain parity with secondary school teachers.

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