Here at Hāwera Hospital we feel the continual impact of not having the resource on every shift to do our jobs as we were trained to do.  This means we need to act now.

As nurses, midwives and health care assistants working at Hāwera Hospital we see the impacts of health underfunding everyday.  We work in unsafe conditions, without the staff or resources to meet patients needs and see people and whānau fall through the widening gaps in our system with increasing frequency.  Our GPs have no capacity or ability to care for our communities.

This is not inevitable or normal, it is very much the result of political decisions.

We are fighting for a fully funded culturally appropriate public health system that meets the needs of all New Zealanders. 

Join us and lets make our collective voice heard!

Your rights to attend this meeting

• Paid union meetings are a right union members have under Section 26 of the Employment Relations Act and Clause 21 of the collective agreement. Union members have the right to attend a properly notified union meeting on ordinary pay if they would otherwise be working.
• Te Whatu Ora has been officially notified that these meetings are taking place.
• The Act requires us to make arrangements with the employer to ensure that the employer’s business is maintained during any union meeting
• We must provide the employer with a list of all those who attended a stop work meeting.
• This meeting will be held onsite. The meeting will be an hour in duration but because it is a Section 26 paid union meetings you have a right of travel time (up to half hour) either side of the meeting to attend.