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October 8, 2025
 

WEATHER UPDATE: All strikes are still going ahead, but some rallies are cancelled or have moved venues because of strong weather warnings.

Click the link below to jump to our table of updated rally details.

If you're a striking member and your local rally is cancelled, you should still undertake your strike action.

Table of rally details

Nearly 17,000 PSA health members – including allied health staff; mental and public health nurses; home support workers; and 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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WEATHER UPDATE: All strikes are still going ahead, but some rallies are cancelled or have moved venues because of strong weather warnings.

If you're a striking member and your local rally is cancelled, you should still undertake your strike action.

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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

1pm – March down Queen St

1.45pm – Closing at Komititanga Square

This event has NZSL interpreters

West Auckland 7.30-9.30am Corner of Lincoln Road and Universal Road.
Thames 11am-1pm

11am – Whānau friendly event in Porrit Park

11.30am – Formalities

12pm – Form a human wall along the Queen St side of the park, followed by a hīkoi to Scott Simpson’s office

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

This event has NZSL interpreters

Taupō 10.30am-1pm

10.30am – Gather on Taupō Primary School back field opposite Taupō medical centre

11.25am – Karakia Timatanga

11.30am – Hīkoi

12.15pm – Rally at the I Love Taupō sign

12.30pm – Speeches

12.50pm – Karakia Whakamutunga

Tūrangi 11am-1pm

Gather at Tūrangi Bridge

Taumarunui 11.30am

Picket at at Hakiaha Street, outside the Main Street playground (Taumarunui public toilets)

Tokoroa 11am-1pm

11:00am – Skate Park (corner of O’Sullivan Drive and Roslin Street)

Tauranga 11am-1.30pm

11am – Meet at Memorial Park

11.30am – Speeches then sign waving

This event has NZSL interpreters

Te Kūiti 11am

Outside The Warehouse, 31 Rora Street

Whakatāne 11am-3pm

11.30am – Gather at Council Buildings, Commerce St. Hikoi along The Strand to Wharaurangi for rally and speeches

Rotorua 11am-1.30pm

11am – Various meeting points then travel to Village Green

11.30am – Arrive at Village Green

12pm – Speeches, sign waving, kai etc

This event has NZSL interpreters

Gisborne 11am-1pm Rally at Heipipi Park then march through town finishing at Kelvin Park.
Wairoa 8.30-9.30am Gather at the lighthouse, then travel to Gisborne or Napier to join the larger action.
Hawke's Bay 11am-1pm

11am – Gather at Napier Sound Shell

11.30am – 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 12-2pm CANCELLED due to weather
Levin 11.15am-1pm

11.15am – Meet at the Adventure Park (93 Oxford Street, Levin) 11.30am – March through town and back to the Adventure Park 12.30-1pm – Finish

Wairarapa 11am-1pm

CANCELLED due to weather

Nelson 11.30am-1.30pm

CANCELLED due to weather

Takaka/Golden Bay 7.30am

Picket outside Golden Bay High, meeting at Village Green

Motueka 7.30-9.30am

7:30am – Occupy both sides of road by Toad Hall (chants, placards, megaphones)

8:30am – Move to space outside Motueka Museum for more of the same

Blenheim 11am-2.30pm

CANCELLED due to weather

Greymouth 11.30am

CANCELLED due to weather

Hokitika

CANCELLED due to weather

Christchurch 11.00am-1.30pm

CANCELLED due to weather

Te Tai o Poutini 9am-2.30pm

CANCELLED due to weather

Mid Canterbury 11.30am-2pm

CANCELLED due to weather

South Canterbury 11.30am-2pm

CANCELLED due to weather

Oamaru 10-11am

CANCELLED due to weather

Alexandra 11am-1pm

CANCELLED due to weather

Wanaka 11am-12pm

CANCELLED due to weather

Queenstown 12-2pm

CANCELLED due to weather

Dunedin 11.45am-1.30pm

NEW VENUE

Edgar Centre (confirmed) meet at 11:45am – Rally start will be 12 noon

Balclutha 11am-1pm

NEW VENUE

Inside Te Pou.

Cromwell 11.30am-1pm

CANCELLED due to weather

Hokonui/Gore 11am-1pm

Meet at Eccles St playground for a march to the Trout – Rally at 12 noon

Invercargill 11.30am-1.30pm

NEW VENUE

ILT Stadium Southland

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

Solidarity social media tiles

Green background, pink text

Green background, white text

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Orange background, pink text

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Pink background, green text

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