The coordinated walkout on October 23 will include about 36,000 nurses, 11,500 other health workers, and 40,000 teachers demanding safer staffing levels, better pay, and improved conditions.
The mass protest follows a year of escalating labour unrest, with at least 22 official strikes recorded so far, spanning sectors from healthcare and education to transport. Earlier stoppages included doctors, midwives, lab technicians, and Uber drivers, disrupting hospitals, schools, and services nationwide.
The upcoming “mega strike” marks the peak of a year-long wave of industrial action fuelled by cost-of-living pressures and stalled negotiations.
Daily Telegraph New Zealand (DTNZ) is an independent news website, first published in October 2021. - where this article was sourced.
The upcoming “mega strike” marks the peak of a year-long wave of industrial action fuelled by cost-of-living pressures and stalled negotiations.
Daily Telegraph New Zealand (DTNZ) is an independent news website, first published in October 2021. - where this article was sourced.
5 comments:
The sun will come up tomorrow . Strike or no strike. It makes a mockery of Government trying to increase the school attendance rate. Do strikers think the Government coffers are overflowing with excess funding and there are no fiscal constraints to attend to .
Give the teachers the $ they are asking for but negotiate (say) 4-week total for school holidays to line up with most other employment. School holidays as they are are a drag on productivity and the progress of education itself. Likewise for the so-called health workers, with opportunity to leverage there less embedded cronyism and thereby opening the field up to more participants. Mistake number one is to try to negotiate anything on a flat plain, and that the situation has come to this is illustrative of the incompetence of the negotiators on both sides.
Use computers and ai to replace teachers ASAP.
Quality of teaching will increase
Video game era Students will engage more
Individualized learning will be enhanced.
Students can be regularly assessed, then set programs targeted to their learning needs
Computers don't go on strike.
Computers wont pay the "dont give a rats about our chuldrens education" teacher union fees.
And I wont have to listen to computers whining on the radio and TV news.
Love and support to our teachers doctors firefighters doing the mahi for our people. Stand up to the corrupt, the rich, the powerful, the hateful. Stay strong!
Judging by the standard of most of the comments here, the education system has definitely fallen off the ledge and into the abyss.
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