Wednesday, March 16, 2005

New Zealand Nurses' victory

Kiwi nurses are celebrating the end of an IR system being aped by John Howard with $10,000 a year wage increases.

Twenty thousand Nurses Organisation members voted up the historic "fair pay" settlement, last week, after years of community campaigning.

The deal, thrashed out in the first national collective agreement, since individual and single-site agreements were mandated by the 1991 Employment Contracts Act, delivers wage movements of between 20 and 30 percent.

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation says it will "stem the tide of nurses flooding out of the health system".

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