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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon. I'm Welcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news figs for Friday, the twenty eighth of November. Tens
of thousands of health workers are stopping work once again today.
Public Service Association members, including Allied health staff, mental and
public health nurses, and policy workers, will strike from one
till five pm. National Secretary Flir fitz Simons says seventeen
(00:26):
and a half thousand workers are participating, but life preserving
services will be maintained.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This strike action comes after Health New Zealand has failed
to make an offer that keeps pace with the cost
of living and fails to address faith staffing levels we
need and deserve better.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Meanwhile, firefighters have been striking again today for better work
conditions and more resources to serve communities. Some two thousand
New Zealand Professional Firefighters union members walked off the job
for an hour from midday. Jordan Dune has more.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Union negotiations with Fire and Emergency have dragged on for
more than sixteen months, with ninety nine percent of members
rejecting our July offer, but Foreign Emergency says there is
zero reason for the strike to go ahead, which it
says we'll put communities at risk. It says independent facilitation
is already being considered by the Employment Relations Authority.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Evacuation procedures and to building safety are in the spotlight
after a massive fire and several Hong Kong high rise apartments.
At least eighty three people have died, two hundred and
fifty are still missing, and seventy five are injured. Massi
University fire engineering professor Rogero Lovrelio says residents have reported
not even hearing a fire alarm as the blaze raged.
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He says we can learn lessons from this.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Sometime when we decided to laud de bar go cheaper
in building and maintaining a building, we put real people,
real family, real friends.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
At threes doubts the government's mind boggling curriculum road show
costs were worth it. News to zb can reveal it
cost one point two million dollars to run four events
last month aimed at helping teachers implement curriculum changes. NZDI
encouraged principles to boycott the sessions, saying leaders feel unsupported
(02:13):
by the pace of change. Principal's Council member Stephen Lethbridge
says other areas of education could have used that money,
especially teacher aids.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
The ministry providing two hundred and twenty five thousand hours nationally,
so we could have increased that by eighteen percent if
this money had been spent on teacher rates.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Scammers are poised to take advantage of the Black Friday
frenzy this weekend. Data from trend micro reveals forty percent
of kiwis are planning to splurge this weekend amid and
onslaught of scams. In the last year, New Zealanders have
lost two hundred and sixty five million dollars to scam activity.
Trend Micro director of Consumer Education Ashley Miller says, cyber
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scams trade on urgency and emotion.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
If I'm asking to act fast to secure a deal
of switch apps help and check. If you're unsure about
a link that comes from a message or an AD,
go directly to the website to make sure that it's real.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
To sport Blackfoil skipper Peter Berling is determined to race
tomorrow night's sale GP Decider in Abu Dhabi as he
recovers from a right index finger injury. India have defeated
the New Zealand men three to two at hockey's Sultan
Aslan Shah Cup in Malaysia. Ash's cricket hero baron Ian
Botham has confessed his television screen will be in mortal
(03:32):
danger if England keep applying the batting method from the
two day loss to open the series against Australia in Perth.
And golfer Fuzzy Zella, a two time major champion, has
died aged seventy four. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest
news fix. We'll be back with the next update at
five pm from the newstalk ZB newsroom
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