Over the last few weeks, NZNO members and activists involved in the Fair Pay Campaign have been working hard to continue to raise public awareness of the issues.

Over the last few weeks, NZNO members and activists involved in the Fair Pay Campaign have been working hard to continue to raise public awareness of the issues. Like the group pictured above, nurses have been busy visiting their local electorate offices, and lobbying MPs about the importance of government putting more money in to settle the multi-employer collective agreement for district health board nurses and midwives.

Other awareness raising activities include ringing talkback radio programmes to put the nurses' point of view; writing letters to newspaper editors; and support for the recently launched "Our town backs our nurses" campaign.

WHAT IF WE REALLY CARED? was the theme and title for the poster promoting the International Day of the Older Person at the beginning of this month. "If we really cared about older people, we'd make sure the aged care sector was adequately funded. We'd make sure we had enough staff and we'd make sure that they were trained and paid a fair wage for the important job they do," the poster said.