More than four-thousand primary care nurses will strike today, seeking pay parity.
Nurses Organisation members claim primary health care and Plunket nurses earn around 20 percent less than their Health New Zealand counterparts, despite doing the same work.
They will walk off the job for four hours today in hopes to bring attention to the value primary health care nurses bring.
GP Owners Association Chair Tim Malloy told Mike Hosking that the Government needs to increase funding, with employers supporting the idea that nurses need higher pay.
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