About 150 workers employed at Access Home Health are on strike today after talks with their Australian-owned employer broke down.
The nurses visit and support patients at home.
Nurses Organisation kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku says the union has been in bargaining with Access for more than a year without progress.
She says Access has recently been bought by Australian private equity firm Anchorage.
“Internationally-owned organisations need to understand the context of living and nursing and looking after our people in Aotearoa. This is an international-owned company coming in here, putting its foot down, and our kiwi nurses standing back and striking back and saying ‘it’s not good enough,’” she says.
Kerri Nuku says the Access nurses have the support of 52,000 other nurses around the country and they are not going to go away.
