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After months of negotiations broke down and the sector refused a two year offered pay increase of 12.5% by the government, some 30,000 nurses in New Zealand went on a 24-hour nationwide strike, the first in the country for 30 years.
Acting prime minister Mr Winston Peters (Prime Minister Ms Jacinda Ardern is at home after the birth of her first child) explained that the New Zealand government was “very, very disappointed” as their increase offer was rejected. According to them, the nine years of neglect for the healthcare sector salaries to be adapted is due to the previous National government.
Mr Peters: “We are saying give us some time. It’s not that we’re not willing to, we haven’t got the money.”