Over the coming week about 1500 hospital midwives will down tools across the country in rolling eight-hour strikes following failed negotiations over pay increases last week. He added the DHBs were also working to finalise a pay equity agreement, which would boost midwives' income. She said the union supported pay equity and would accept interim payment for the pay equity as part of a deal. Midwives working 'above and beyond'MERAS union representative Victoria Christian was one of the many midwives walking off the job today in protest over pay and working conditions for hospital midwives employed by DHBs. Green agreed more hospital midwives were needed and acknowledged the historic undervaluing of hospital midwives in terms of pay and working conditions"We accept there that there aren't enough [midwives] in the system.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 08, 2021 20:37 UTC