Wood right on nurse restrictions:
Immigration Minister Michael Wood rejects he has only thin evidence to suggest nurses are more likely than doctors to switch jobs after gaining residence.
Immigration Minister Michael Wood is right to require migrant nurses coming to NZ are going to actually remain as nurses once they get here!
The process has been made easier to get here, but there is a global demand for nurses and the ones we get here we want t keep as nurses!
That’s just prudent, that’s not draconian or stupid!
What is most concerning decision makers right now is the bleak future consumers and producers are predicting DESPITE wages being high and unemployment low.
It hints that the last 14 years of central banks printing money to offset a global financial collapse in 2008 has built a hollow illusion of growth that collapses in upon itself the millisecond normal financial parameters are attempted.
The ocean of debt is about to find true gravity as interest rates are forced up in a desperate attempt to stop supply side inflation dynamics, which of course will only make the situation worse.
Right now nursing and hospitality are screaming to throw open the immigration flood gates to allow offshore labour to prop up their exploitation models.
Nursing requires cheaper offshore options and hospitality is built upon exploiting overseas backpackers.
If the Government cave into these demands, the unemployment rate will suddenly explode as multiple industries fall back on cheaper labour options and they sack kiwi workers for cheaper offshore options.
In 2019, 4million tourists visited NZ as part of our exploitative hyper tourism industry – those numbers will never come back while China’s zero covid policy stands and while new Covid variants sweep around the world.
Hospitality servicing hyper tourism is dead and if we are to make real progress on more teachers, nurses and Drs, we need to offer free education in return for bonding their service post graduation.
Little blames Union:
Health Minister Andrew Little has labelled the country’s largest nurses’ union as being ‘unprincipled’ and the impediment to a pay deal.
The minister, who has so far refused to call health workforce pressures a crisis, doubled down on comments he made publicly on Wednesday in which he described the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) as “talking with a forked tongue”.
“They are blocking nurses getting a pay rise,” Little said in an interview on Thursday morning.
New Zealand is short 4000 nurses and unions representing healthcare workers and medical societies have urged the minister to label the situation a crisis.
Ghost anti mandate nurses numbers don’t stack up:
Hundreds of unvaccinated nurses across New Zealand want to return to the workforce to help a health system in “crisis”, but the Government continues to deny them.
Nurses for Freedom New Zealand founder Deborah Cunliffe said 700 nurses and health care assistants had joined the group in the past three weeks. Most of the members were unvaccinated, some had received two doses but didn’t want a booster, and others had become ill after being vaccinated, she said.
The bulk of the group’s members were ready, willing and able to return to the workforce, she said.
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