Industrial Action

New Zealand workers are calling on the Fijian High Commissioner to intervene over the treatment of Nadi airport workers. Video

Hundreds of disability support workers around the country took to the streets this morning in a one-hour strike against their working conditions.

A nation-wide strike of 3000 disability support workers is set to take place on Thursday.

Restaurant Brands has hit back at union members after a strike today, saying overall wages and conditions for their fast-food employees are better than at the company's competitors.

The Defence Force denies it tried to stop civilian staff taking part in a strike for better pay, but the workers' union says it acted unlawfully.

Junior doctors have ratified a deal that settles a dispute with district health boards over rosters.

A bitter industrial dispute between junior doctors and their employers cost at least $5 million.

Junior doctors and their employers have hammered out a deal in their long-running and bitter row over rosters.

A junior doctors' strike is only going ahead because district health board chief executives could not get their act together to sign off on an agreement, a junior doctor says.

A union is accusing Waikato DHB of offering junior doctors up to $200 an hour to work during next week's planned three-day strike.

Union members have gone on strike for the past two weekends over changes to work rosters, and say they will continue for the next two as well.

A two-day strike by junior doctors in October cost district health boards $1.5 million.

Junior doctors are planning another 48-hour strike in the ongoing row with employers over rosters.

Junior doctors will vote on whether to strike again for 48 hours, after talks broke down between doctors and their employers.

Serious mistakes by exhausted junior doctors are going unreported because they think their concerns are falling on deaf ears, their union says.

The Medical Council will follow up claims of threats against junior doctors who were considering whether to strike, as they return to work today after 48 hours of industrial action.

It could take months for hospitals to catch up with the backlog of planned surgeries after a strike by junior doctors, a senior doctor says. Video

Junior doctors have begun strike action over a dispute about rosters, but the Health Minister says he has seen no objective evidence that their working hours are unsafe. Video, Audio