Five unions are taking the government to the High Court over changes to pay equity laws, arguing that the changes breached the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act. NZNO members want better nurse-to-patient ratios and a return to hiring every graduate, as they prepare to strike for two days in early September. ASMS is warning that the lack of detail in the national health plan for how Health NZ will meet its lofty goals, or pay for them, is especially worrying at a time when the public system is under massive pressure.
Union coverage
- Pay equity: Five unions to take government to court over law changes
- Unions launch legal action over pay equity changes
- Teachers, nurses, 'down in the dumps', taking the Government to court over pay (paywall)
- NZNO: Nurses to strike for better nurse-to-patient ratios
- NZNO: New Zealand Nurses Organisation members vote to strike again in September
- ASMS: Senior doctors' union worried national health plan lacks detail
- NZPFU: Firefighters sound the alarm over pay, gear, staffing (paywall)
- Corrections Association: Violence and riots now common in New Zealand prisons, staff union says
Employment
- Future of strikes: Bargaining reaches boiling point, what's next? (paywall)
- Afghan veterans suffer, after breathing smoke from burning tyres, faecal matter
Politics
- Christopher Luxon says he's 'focused 100%' on economy, not passports
- Protesting at people's private homes to be outlawed
- Government to unveil big shake-up of building regulations (paywall)
- Final cost of breaking South Korean ferry contract revealed
- Ministers urged to walk the streets as rough-sleeping crisis deepens (paywall)
- Protesters confront Resources Minister Shane Jones in Whangārei over fast-track projects
- 'Insulted' Wayne Brown and council tell Govt to stick its local government reform
Te Ao Māori
- Supreme Court gives green light to riverbeds' inclusion in Māori customary marine title orders
- Māori coastal rights Supreme Court decision could set precedent - lawyer
- Te Pāti Māori accuses Electoral Commission of 'voter suppression' over enrolments
Economics
- Trade Minister travelling to United States after to discuss 15 percent tariff
- High confidence Reserve Bank will cut OCR to 3% on Wednesday (paywall)
- Resource Management Act changes will allow power plants to be built faster – energy producers
- Business leaders sour on Luxon government, but fear lack of clear successor (paywall)
Opinion
- The Government v the unions (paywall)
- Taking the joy out of reading, one culture war at a time (paywall)
- Things to understand when making sense of the Māori ward debate (paywall)
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