Pacific Radiology Group (PRG), has just announced a massive 3784% increase in profits in the last six months. Meanwhile, PRG mammographers are paid up to 14% less than their counterparts employed in the District Health Boards for performing the exact same job.
For the first time in New Zealand history, mammographers employed by a private sector company will go on strike. PRG Mammographers from Dunedin, Invercargill, Nelson, Timaru and Christchurch will go on strike on 16th December 2021.
Medical Physicists at the six DHBs that offer radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer will commence strike action from Friday 3 December 2021. Twenty-four hour stoppages will occur on Friday 3rd, Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th December.
Psychologists working in schools and early childhood centers have given notice of a nationwide strike beginning tomorrow.