Nearly 17,000 PSA health members – including allied health staff, mental and public health nurses, home support workers, policy, knowledge, advisory, and specialist workers – are striking for safe staffing, fair pay, and conditions to give quality care patients deserve.
Though we work in different parts of the health system, our collective bargaining faces similar challenges, caused by the Coalition Government's austerity approach:
- Health NZ’s offers don't address chronic understaffing issues that stop us providing the level of care patients deserve. Unsafe staffing means unsafe workplaces.
- Services are suffering from ridiculous recruitment delays. As a result, health workers are pulling double shifts and working unsustainably long hours. Both patients and workers are at risk.
- The pay offers are effectively pay cuts during a cost-of-living crisis. We risk losing more health workers to Australia.
Overworked and undervalued health workers cannot keep delivering the care patients need or deserve. Communities deserve timely care, at safely staffed services, in excellent clinics.
That’s why health workers are standing up for healthcare that looks after everyone.
If you're part of the striking groups, click the links below to find the information you need for your strike. Otherwise, keep reading for info on how you can support the strikes.
I’m covered by the Allied Health collective agreement.
I’m covered by a Mental Health and Public Health Nursing collective agreement.
I’m covered by the PAKS Collective Agreement.
I’m covered by the Home Care Support Workers West Coast I Te Tai Poutini District Collective Agreement.
Picket and rally information
See the table below for details of pickets and rallies for the day of the strike. We’ll post updates on this page and our social media.
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City |
Time |
Location |
Kaitaia |
10.30am-12pm |
10.30am – Assemble at Te Ahu cnr SH 1 & Mathews
11am – March to old Pak n Save carpark
11.30am – Rally
12pm – finish |
Whangārei |
11.30am-1pm |
11.30am – Assemble Laurie Hall Park carpark
12pm – March to Town Basin
12.30pm – Rally at grassed area by Rayburn House Lane
1pm – Finish |
Auckland |
12-2pm |
12pm – Assemble in Aotea Square
12.30pm – Rally starts
1pm – March to Komititanga square
2pm – Finish |
West Auckland |
7.30am-9.30am |
Corner of Lincoln Road and Universal Road. |
Hamilton |
11.30am-1.30pm |
11.30am – Meet at Band Rotunda, Victoria Street
11.45am – March to Garden Place
12.30pm – Speeches at Garden Place
1.30pm – Finish |
Tauranga |
11am-1pm |
11am – Meet at Memorial Park
11.30am – Speeches then sign waving |
Rotorua |
11am-1.30pm |
11am – Meeting points TBC, then travel to Village Green
11.30am – Arrive at Village Green
12pm – Rally at Village Green |
Gisborne |
11am-1pm |
Rally at Heipipi Park then march through town finishing at Kelvin Park. |
Hawke's Bay |
11am-1pm |
11am – Gather at Napier Sound Shell
11.30-12.10pm – Speakers
12.15pm – March down Emerson Street to Clive Square
1pm – Finish |
New Plymouth |
11am-1pm |
Rally at the Puke Ariki Landing. Street March through the CBD – Ariki Street – Egmont St – Devon St East – Gover St-Gill St – Ariki St and back to the Puke Ariki Landing |
Palmerston North |
11.15am-1pm |
Meet at Railway Land Reserve, and march down Church Street to the cenotaph for a rally. |
Whanganui |
11.30am-1.30pm |
11.30am – Meet at the town bridge and march up Victoria Avenue to Majestic Square
12.30pm – Rally at Majestic Square
1.30pm – Finish |
Wellington |
12pm-2pm |
12pm – Meet at Queens Wharf under the sails
12.20pm – March to Parliament via Grey Street and Lambton Quay
1pm – Rally at Parliament |
Wairarapa |
11am-1pm |
11am – Allied Health members meet outside hospital
11.30am – March to the Town Hall
12.10pm – Rally outside Town Hall |
Nelson |
11.30am-1.30pm |
11.30am – Meet by Nelson Library.
12pm – March down Trafalgar Street to Cathedral steps
12.30pm – Hui at Cathedral steps with speeches
1.30pm – Hui concludes |
Blenheim |
11.30am-2.30pm |
11.30am – Meet at carpark by The Warehouse, March down
market street and head to Seymour Square for speeches.
2.30pm – Finish |
Christchurch |
11.00am-1.30pm |
11am – Meeting at North Hagley Park with music, kapa haka, and
more
12pm – Speeches and chants at North Hagley Park
12:45pm – March to key locations: the green opposite Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, corporate services and hospital
1.30pm – Finish |
Te Tai o Poutini |
9am-2.30pm |
9am – Meet in New World carpark, Hokitika
11-11.30am – Meet at The Warehouse in Greymouth
12pm – Speeches in Greymouth Town Square
1.30pm – Picket in Westport. Meet in Victoria Square, cnr Lyndhurst & Russell
2.30 – Picket finishes |
Mid Canterbury |
11.30am-2pm |
11.30am – Meet outside Library go over a briefing and safety
plan
Move down both side of main street to the chessboard area. Speeches, walk past MP office. Move through to carpark on SH1 with signs and placards.
2pm – Action ends |
South Canterbury |
11.30am-2pm |
11.30am – Meet at Soundshell
12.30pm – Start marching to MPs office, emailing him, and then waking to the green on the corner of Church street to chant, cheer and make some noise
2pm – Finish |
Queenstown |
11am-1pm |
11am – Meet on the grass verge by the side of the road in between the Pak n Save roundabout and Kmart roundabout |
Dunedin |
11am-1.30pm |
11am – Meet at First Church on Moray Place, then march up Lower Stuart Street and finishing at the Octagon.
12pm – Rally and speeches at the Octagon. |
Cromwell |
11.30am-1pm |
11.30am – Meet at the Fruit Sculpture |
Hokonui |
11.30am-1pm |
11.30am – Meet at the Gore Brown Trout |
Invercargill |
11am-1.30pm |
Rally at Gala Street Reserve |
Resources
Check out posters, flyers, signs, and more for you to use to spread the word about the strikes.
Posters
Stand together for health poster
Flyers
Stand together for health flyer
A3 signs
Care for us to care for you
Health cuts don't heal
Pay fair for care (green)
Pay fair for care (pink)
Public health for the people
Safe staffing saves lives
Stand together for health
Email signatures
Blue email signature
Green email signature
Orange email signature