Strike
Air NZ/Union negotiations could run into the night
Urgent talks between Air New Zealand and unions are underway in a bid to avert a one-day strike that one travel agency says would be almost unprecedented. The strike by the airline's engineers on… Audio
Air NZ engineers strike
The Air New Zealand engineers' strike is planned for the busiest flying day of the year, December 21st. More than 40,000 customers are booked to travel that day. Audio
Auckland teachers strike over pay, conditions
Primary teachers and principals ditched their classrooms and hit the streets in Auckland today, kicking off a week of rolling strike action across the country. Katie Scotcher reports. Video, Audio
Midwives strike ‘will be difficult for women and their babies’
DHBs spokesperson Jim Green says the midwives' strike will be very disruptive to mothers and babies, and will likely result in inductions and caesareans being postponed. He spoke with Lisa Owen. Video, Audio
Midwives reject DHBs pay offer, vote to strike
District health board midwives have rejected a pay offer and voted to go on strike later this month. They are planning to strike for two hours, twice a day, every day in hospitals throughout the… Video, Audio
Teachers prepare to strike over pay and classroom conditions
Teachers will walk out of classrooms during rolling strikes next month in an effort to get smaller class sizes, more resources and significant pay rises. Audio
Bus drivers vow to continue to fight for pay rise after strike
Disruption caused by a bus strike has been a fraction of what Auckland Transport forecast after more drivers turned up for work than expected. Audio
Primary teachers to vote on second strike
Primary teachers are proposing a week of one-day rolling strikes in November. Their union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, says teachers and principals will vote in the first week of the fourth term on the proposed… Audio
Courts to close for two hours on Wednesday due to strike
Courts around the country will close for two hours on Wednesday while staff strike for better pay.
Doctors' unions face off over new rosters
A rebel doctors' union says new hospital rosters that thousands of junior doctors went on strike for have wrecked their training and may be unsafe for patients. So-called safer working hours have been… Audio
Teachers rally for better pay and conditions
The government is urging patience, but thousands of teachers who went on strike today made it clear they are in no mood to wait for better pay and conditions. Education Correspondent John Gerritsen… Video, Audio
Teachers on strike: 'It's a crisis'
John Campbell joined teachers as they walked off the job and hit the streets in the first strike action in 24 years. They tell him how it's come to this, and explain what they want. Video, Audio
Teachers prepared for two-day strike
Striking teachers held rallies throughout the country and showed support for a two-day strike if they don't get an improved offer on pay and conditions. Audio
Primary teachers prepare for first strike in decades
At least 28,000 teachers and principals are going on strike on Wednesday, forcing the closure of most of the country's primary and intermediate schools. They are holding rallies in towns and cities… Audio
Teachers back move to full-day strike
Thousands of primary teachers and principals will walk off the job in a fortnight for the first time in 24 years unless mediation between the union and the Ministry of Education is successful. Video, Audio
Māori TV union members strike over 'unfair treatment'
It's not just nurses and teachers taking to the picket lines. Union members at Māori Televison will walk off the job for 24 hours next week to protest what they are describing unfair and… Audio
Primary teachers to strike for first time in 24 years
Primary school teachers and principals have voted to go on strike for the first time in twenty years. The full-day strike will take place in two weeks' time on August 15. The New Zealand Educational… Audio
Strikers do community work
Dunedin Inland Revenue staff are on strike today but they haven't just been picketing, this afternoon they have been doing volunteer work at the gardens of the Otago Community Hospice. Audio
Safe staffing 'should be a given', but it's not, nurse says
Neonatal intensive care nurse Julie Dick says nurses have been undervalued as a work force for decades, and health care funds need to be re-distributed in order for nurses to be paid better. Audio
Protests across New Zealand as nurses strike
Nurses rejected the latest pay offer from their District Health Board employers, and now 30,000 are on strike for 24 hours. Video, Audio