16 Jan 2019

Breakaway union supports right to strike

From Summer Report, 8:31 am on 16 January 2019

About three-thousand junior doctors will continue striking today in what they say is a bid to protect safer working hours in public hospitals. Those taking industrial action are part of the Resident Doctors' Association, which represents resident medical officers throughout New Zealand. But - it's not the only union that junior doctors can join. The Specialty Trainees of New Zealand was set up as an alternative to the Resident Doctors' Association in 2017.

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