Conventions aim to build leadership skills and collective strength."Members make a difference" is the theme for this year's regional conventions, being held during May and June. "We want to honour the leadership skills and potential of our members," explained NZNO NZNO New Zealand Nurses Organisation educator and programme organiser, Susan Stewart For the "As the World Turns" character, see Dr. Susan Stewart. Susan Stewart is an American poet, university professor and literary critic born in 1952. . "Each of the conventions will aim to reinforce in people a sense of their collective strength in their workplaces, their sectors and their communities. Some nurses and caregivers feel personally responsible when their patients or residents do not receive the level of care they deserve. We want people to respond collectively to these issues and to put the responsibility for poor working conditions back where it belongs--the employer. Our members are just guardians of the services they work for. All of us have a responsibility to pass them to the next generation of workers with good wages and working conditions." Each of the nine conventions will open with a keynote address keynote address n. An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech. Noun 1. , given primarily by NZNO president Marion Guy, which will celebrate NZNO's successes in 2005, particularly the public sector Fair Pay Campaign and the role members played in it. Emphasis will be given to the four key elements in any successful campaign: membership growth, delegate leadership, member activity and external leverage. "We need members who join NZNO, not just because of what it can offer them, eg indemnity insurance indemnity insurance Managed care A type of health insurance in which a Pt can choose the hospital and provider, and the insurer reimburses the Pt or provider for a set percentage of the cost, minus deductibles and co-payments , but who genuinely believe in the values of union membership," said Stewart. "As well as working in our workplaces to achieve good conditions, we also need to educate our communities to understand the issues and support our aims." Convention delegates will work in small groups to assess how successful their different sector activities have been. There will be presentations from NZNO's professional and legal staff, an update from the Committee of Inquiry into Safe Staffing and Healthy Workplaces, and members from Te Runanga O Aotearoa NZNO will discuss the PAUA paua Noun an edible shellfish of New Zealand, which has a pearly shell used for jewellery [Maori] (Positive Action in Unity and Aroha aroha Noun NZ love, compassion, or affection [Maori] ) project (see p33). An afternoon session will encourage delegates to make a personal commitment to undertake one small action to increase NZNO's external leverage, eg talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to a member of the public about an NZNO campaign or displaying a bumper sticker bumper sticker n. A sticker bearing a printed message for display on a vehicle's bumper. bumper sticker n → Aufkleber m . The conventions will be held: May 17: Tai Tokerau (Whangarei) May 18: Greater Auckland May 24: Midlands/Bay of Plenty/Tairawhiti (Hamilton) May 25: Hawke's Bay (Napier) June 1: Canterbury/West Coast (Christchurch) June 2: Southern (Dunedin) June 16: Central (Palmerston North) June 19: Top of the South (Nelson) |
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