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Speaker 1: If you've got an appointment at the hospital this week,

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Speaker 1: you might want to check it's still going ahead. Why

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Speaker 1: the nurses are going on strike tomorrow and here are

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Speaker 1: the numbers for you. Kicks off at nine am tomorrow

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Speaker 1: morning and will last twenty four hours. Four thousand, three

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Speaker 1: hundred surgeries and specialist appointments are going to be affected.

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Speaker 1: Thirty six thousand nurses taking part. It's a complete withdrawal

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Speaker 1: of labor. It'll affect anywhere that Health New Zealand provides

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Speaker 1: health or hospital care, so your clinics but also your

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Speaker 1: hospitals and of course the middle of winter, so great timing.

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Speaker 1: Nurses union being bargaining the usual staff pay, staffing levels

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Speaker 1: also as usual. They say it's life or death. You

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Speaker 1: will be seen to. They had a bargaining meeting yesterday

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Speaker 1: with Health New Zealand obviously didn't go well. They've been

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Speaker 1: bargaining since last September. The nurses say two short staffed

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Speaker 1: and your nurses who are leaving are not being replaced. However,

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Speaker 1: Health New Zealand says a new graduate nurse on seventy

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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars we'd get a total pay increase of

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Speaker 1: eight and a half thousand dollars, it's eleven percent by

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Speaker 1: the end of June next year. And what's more, they

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Speaker 1: say the average salary for both senior and registered nurses,

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Speaker 1: including overtime allowances and penal rates of one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty five grand. Until these guys sort out who's right

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Speaker 1: and come to some sort of agreement, this may not

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Speaker 1: be the last hospital strike that we patients must endure

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