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October 8, 2025
 

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:

  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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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

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