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Article: Fiji nurses prepare for their own fair pay campaign: improving nurses' pay and conditions is the key to stopping the migration of nurses from Fiji to countries abroad. NZNO is willing to do what it can to help.(NEWS FOCUS)
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- Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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Low pay and poor working conditions are driving Fiji's experienced nurses out of the country for better career prospects in Australia, New Zealand and further afield. Unless their appallingly low pay levels are addressed, nurses will continue to leave, taking with them their country's investment in their skills, training and experience.
So warned vice-president of the Fiji Nursing Association (FNA), Miriama Leweniqila, when she met NZNO organising services manager Laila Harre and communications adviser Lyndy McIntyre in February. Harre and McIntyre had been invited to spend a week with FNA leaders and members to explore ways NZNO could support the FNA's struggle ...