NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Ang Bayan Ngayon » 36,000 health workers in New Zealand to go on strike on July 31

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) announced on July 11 that its members had voted to launch a 24-hour strike. The strike is set for July 30 to 31 to urge Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand) to address the severe shortage of staff in hospitals and healthcare facilities nationwide.

The Philippines’ Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) expressed support and solidarity with NZNO for the planned strike. “We deeply understand your struggle, as we face a similar crisis here in the Philippines,” the AHW said.

The group of Filipino health workers said hospitals and healthcare facilities in the Philippines are also chronically understaffed, which continues to compromise the delivery of quality healthcare services for the people. “This crisis has reached a critical point,” the AHW stated.

The group is composed of at least 36,000 nurses, midwives, healthcare assistants, and kaimahi hauora (a Māori term). They are currently in the process of negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with the New Zealand government that began in September 2024.

NZNO Chief Executive Paul Goulter said Health New Zealand’s offer last week was worse than what it offered in May.

“Patients are at risk because of short staffing. Nurses, midwives and health care assistants are stretched too thin and can’t give patients the care they need,” said Goulter. He further explained that this situation is discouraging for health workers.

In addition to more staff, nurses and health workers are calling for higher wages, better working conditions, and other benefits and rights.

“We stand with you in your fight for safe staffing levels and fair wages,” AHW expressed in solidarity with NZNO.

In the Philippines, AHW is leading the health workers’ fight for allowances and benefits that the Marcos regime has yet to provide, higher wages, and other rights.

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The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is the revolutionary united front organization of the Filipino people fighting for national freedom and for the democratic rights of the people. The NDFP seeks to develop and coordinate all progressive classes, sectors and forces in the Filipino people’s struggle to end the rule of US imperialism and its local allies of big landlords and compradors, and attain national and social liberation.

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