Eight-week challenge for NZHO members.ALL NZNO NZNO New Zealand Nurses Organisation members are being exhorted to collect eight signatures to a petition launched on March 8, International Women's Day International Women's Day (IWD) is marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. . NZNO has launched the nationwide petition to all MPs calling for more money for district health boards (DHBs) so they can pay nurses and midwives fairly and ensure safe staffing. The petition is part of an eight-week challenge for all NZNO members. Petition forms are in this month's Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. . The challenge is for all NZNO members to collect eight signatures in eight weeks and return completed petition forms to NZNO delegates or NZNO offices before International Nurses Day on May 12. The petitions will be presented at Parliament before Budget Day, which this year falls on May 27. The petition calls on MPs to provide additional funding to DHBs to enable collective agreements to be negotiated which: * Fully and fairly value the skills, responsibilities, effort and working conditions of nurses and midwives in relation to comparable professions. * Provide for safe nurse/midwife to patient ratios at all times in all wards and departments in all public hospitals. * Demonstrate to nurses and midwives the value the community places on their work and ensure that they make lifelong careers in New Zealand. The Fair Pay Campaign is about winning fair pay for all NZNO members, starting in DHBs where we have our greatest strength. If all NZNO members support the eight-week challenge there will he more than 250,000 petition signatures--a strong message to MPs about nursing and midwifery midwifery (mĭd`wī'fərē), art of assisting at childbirth. The term midwife for centuries referred to a woman who was an overseer during the process of delivery. In ancient Greece and Rome, these women had some formal training. pay and staffing numbers. At the same time NZNO members are taking on the challenge, NZNO delegates and fair pay campaigners will be taking the petition into communities, in particular targeting the thousands of New Zealanders attending Super 12 games over the next few weeks. The UMR UMR Unite Mixte de Recherche (French: Mixed Unit of Research ) UMR University of Missouri - Rolla UMR Upper Mississippi River UMR Uniform Methods and Rules (US Department of Agriculture) UMR Unit Manning Report poll conducted last year showed New Zealanders overwhelmingly support NZNO's fair pay goals. The eight-week challenge is a chance for New Zealanders to demonstrate that support by signing a Fair Pay petition. NZNO believes that if nurses, the most respected profession in the country, can win fair pay and get workload issues addressed, that will have a flow-on effect for other women workers. For more forms, email fairpay@nzno.org.nz or contact NZNO or your delegate. * International Women's Day has been celebrated for nearly 100 years. The origins of the day are in a protest against inhumane in·hu·mane adj. Lacking pity or compassion. in  hu·mane ly adv. working
conditions and low wages by garment workers in New York New York, state, United StatesNew York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of on March 8, 1857. Today, International Women's Day is an official United Nations Day celebrated around the world highlighting women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and and international peace. NZNO's communications adviser Lyndy McIntire. |
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