Medical Laboratory Workers employed by Southern Community Laboratories Ltd have voted to strike for 24 hours on Monday 17th August 2020. The strike is in support of bargaining for a fair pay offer from a strong and profitable private sector provider of medical laboratory testing.
DHB Medical Laboratory Workers and NZ Blood Service employees to strike to to put pressure on the employers to come back to the bargaining table with a fair offer to settle their National MECA.
Application for urgent facilitated bargaining accepted by the Employment Relations Authority following five month long dispute and three months of strike action.
Medical Laboratory Workers and NZ Blood Service employees to picket in support of strike action.
The DHBs' refusal to engage in constructive bargaining has resulted in them rejecting APEX’s calls to settle the Medical Imaging Technologists (MITs) MECA. The DHBs have filed for facilitation.
DHB employed MITs have rejected the offer put to them in settlement of their national collective agreement and will be taking further strike action this week. Negotiations for the MIT national MECA have now been ongoing for over 10 months.
Six hundred psychologists employed by District Health Boards, and members of the union APEX, will begin voting next week on a new offer from their employers to settle their collective agreement negotiations.
