Browse Alexander, Glenda

1-38 out of 38 article(s)

Title	Type	Date	Words
Awareness, education, empowerment: NZNO has re-focused its approach to safe staffing, with awareness, education and empowerment the three goals of its new campaign.		Oct 1, 2009	932
NZNO and PSA to work more closely together.		Sep 1, 2009	386
Managing change--a balancing act: long-serving health care assistants at Capital and Coast District Health Board have not fared well in changes associated with the move to the new regional hospital.		Apr 1, 2009	832
Delegate or delegate? Has the user-pays mentality pervaded the role of the NZNO delegate? What should their role be in the current environment?		Mar 1, 2009	899
Jack up or jackpot? Joint action committees are gearing up for business in district health boards across the country.		Sep 1, 2008	798
Safe staffing--getting it right now: ensuring safe staffing across all health sectors is a significant challenge. NZNO is meeting the challenge with a long-term, organisation-wide approach.		Aug 1, 2008	925
For healthy government vote well in 2008.		Apr 1, 2008	350
What's up 'JAC'? What's the joint action committee all about, who's on it, what will it do, how will it work and will it make a difference? Read on.		Mar 1, 2008	828
The nuts and bolts of interest-based bargaining: district health board nurses and midwives have secured a very good pay settlement, while negotiations in other parts of the health sector have been acrimonious and protracted. How come?		Oct 1, 2007	793
Fair play?--You decide: this month, NZNO public sector members will vote on a proposed settlement of the nurses' and midwives' collective agreement, worked out with a new bargaining approach. Does it meets NZNO's fair play principles?		Aug 1, 2007	939
Pay and employment equity reviews underway in five district health boards.		Jun 1, 2007	342
Speaking privately: NZNO's membership may be divided into different sector groups within the organisation but the ultimate aims and aspirations are the same.		Jun 1, 2007	901
Do we have safe and healthy workplace yet? Are the recommendations of the Committee of Inquiry into Safe Staffing and Healthy Workplaces making a difference in district health boards? They should be, as they encourage positive practice environments.		Apr 1, 2007	887
Consultation--what's it all about? Developments in some district health boards over the last few months indicate a lack of respect for genuine consultation with nurses.		Dec 1, 2006	972
Negotiating from a position of interests rather than claims: as bargaining gets underway in the public sector, lessons from recent bargaining experiences in Australia, which enabled negotiators to "think outside the square", are being used.		Oct 1, 2006	1030
Ensuring history does not repeat itself: new employment legislation in Australia is all too familiar to New Zealand workers who remember the dark days of the Employment Contracts Act.		Aug 1, 2006	970
The responsibilities of negotiating team members: members selected to go on to a negotiating team have responsibilities to those they represent and to the negotiating team. Those who choose them also have responsibilities.	Interview	Jun 1, 2006	902
What does pay and employment equity mean? What on earth is pay and employment equity? And why do nurses need to understand it and its application in their workplaces?		Apr 1, 2006	973
Preparations for next MECA begin.	Conference news	Mar 1, 2006	478
Moving towards true workplace equity.		Feb 1, 2006	965
Compers tool marginalises senior nurses.	Letter to the Editor	Dec 1, 2005	535
Senior nurses and midwives ratify new pay scales.		Dec 1, 2005	566
Campaigning to build stronger unions: an NZNO delegation to a recent Australian union conference shared their fair pay campaign experiences and learnt some things from their colleagues across the Tasman.		Nov 1, 2005	997
Celebrating our fair pay anniversary: as we mark the first anniversary of the historic multi-employer collective agreement for public sector health workers, it is good to take stock of the achievements to date.		Oct 1, 2005	926
MECA working parties make progress: the work of three of the working parties, set up after the public sector multi-employer collective agreement, is coming to an end.		Jul 1, 2005	897
Unsafe staffing major concern for DHB members.		Jul 1, 2005	448
Dissatisfaction with pay offer.	Letter to the Editor	Jun 1, 2005	353
Work arising from the MECA continues: the work arising from the national public sector multi-employer collective agreement did not stop once the deal was ratified. A number of working parties are being established to deal with a range of issues that arose during negotiations.		Apr 1, 2005	804
Building relationships between DHB management and unions.		Apr 1, 2005	538
Members overwhelmingly endorse a national agreement; the national ballot held last month emphatically proved that public sector members want a national collective agreement. What are the next steps on the journey to that final destination?		Jun 1, 2004	633
Bargaining for a national MECA: half or more NZNO members must have voted 'yes' in this month's national ballot if national bargaining is to take place this year. A clear process has been established to begin these negotiations.		May 1, 2004	935
The challenges of being a negotiating team member: being on an NZNO negotiating team can be challenging, time consuming, tedious, frustrating, fascinating and rewarding.		Apr 1, 2004	984
Negotiations begin for MRT MECA.		Mar 1, 2004	110
DHB sector group is making progress on priorities.		Feb 1, 2004	370
National MECA for medical radiation technologists.		Feb 1, 2004	349
Protecting the position of enrolled nurses: NZNO has recently successfully blocked the release of a Ministry Health statement restricting the practice of enrolled nurses.		May 1, 2003	947
Dunedin.		May 1, 2003	383
Dunedin.		Feb 1, 2003	386