The Covid-19 pandemic has cast its shadow over the way striking primary health care nurses have protested in Palmerston North. READ MORE:* Primary care nurses want pay equity with hospital-based colleagues* Frontline nurses across the country striking for pay parity* Coronavirus: Frontline nurses preparing to strike 'stretched to the maximum'They are paid 10.6 per cent less than nurses employed by district health boards – $7650 a year. Some receptionists and office staff who worked in primary care were paid less than the living wage. We are definitely not worth less than hospital workers.”David Unwin/Stuff Primary health care nurse Susan Jestin supports the nurses' pay claim. New Zealand Nurses Organisation union organiser Raewyn Hughes said the strike followed more than a year of bargaining.

Source: Stuff September 03, 2020 05:37 UTC