Why Healthcare Workers are Striking w/ Paul Goulter of the NZ Nurses Organization: 11 October, 2023

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation recently picketed to bring awareness to the staffing shortages currently being experienced in the New Zealand healthcare industry. Nurses, midwives, health care assistants, and kaimahi hauora came together last Thursday to make their voices heard.

The group congregated at Manurewa holding signs and engaging with the public. In addition, the Nurses Organisation compiled some political scorecards that rank the different parties based on their healthcare policies.

To find out more, Arno spoke to the Chief Executive of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Paul Goulter.

Firstly, Arno asked them what the nurses were picketing for.