Healthy Pay for Healthy Hospitals
The campaign for ALL service workers in public hospitals
Latest news 22 December 2010
Negotiations with the District Health Boards and the four contracting companies have started to renew the current SFWU collective employment agreements and win a pay increase for our 3000 public hospital members.
The union negotiators have presented the DHBs and contractors with over 20 claims. Read more in our recent newsletter for members
The union negotiators have presented the DHBs and contractors with over 20 claims.
Read more in our recent newsletter for members
The union negotiators have presented the DHBs and contractors with over 20 claims.
Read more in our recent newsletter for members
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*LATEST NEWSLETTER*DHB MECA Update 2010/.11 Reprt 1 (22 Dec 2010)
Older newsletters from last time around....
The Healthy Hospitals campaign
In 2007/08, 3000 SFWU Nga Ringa Tota members employed as orderlies, cleaners, food service workers, security workers and home support workers in public hospitals set an important benchmark for low-paid workers.
The Union’s public hospital campaign, Healthy Pay for Healthy Hospitals, was finally completed at the end of 2008. It succeeded in establishing a minimum pay rate of $14.25 an hour (since increased to $14.62 an hour), a five-step wage scale and the restoration of weekend, night and public hospital penal rates that many of these workers had lost during the 1990s.
Click here to see video clips of SFWU members from the 2007/8 Healthy Hospitals Campaign
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