Life preserving care will continue for women and babies over the eight-hour midwives' strike on Tuesday, South Canterbury District Health Board interim chief executive says. Some unionised South Canterbury midwives will take eight-hour strike action on Tuesday after failed negotiations over their Multi Employer Collective Agreement. South Canterbury District Health Board interim chief executive Jason Power wanted to reassure the public that life preserving services from midwives would be functioning and staff had volunteered from other areas to support the basic care needed at Jean Todd. READ MORE:* Hospital midwives across the country to strike next week* DHB Doctors and dentists stopwork meeting on MondayMidwives’ union Midwifery Employee Representation and Advisory Service (Meras), which has taken the action, represents about 1700 hospital and community midwives. The negotiations are separate to midwives who are New Zealand Nurses Organisation union members.

Source: Stuff August 08, 2021 01:41 UTC