Hospital midwives who are members of the Midwifery Employee Representation and Advisory Services (MERAS), have settled their Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) with the country’s DHBs. The MECA expired on 31 January this year and MERAS…

The MERAS AGM will be held from 7pm to 8.30pm on Wednesday, 8 September, by Zoom. All MERAS members are invited to attend and have been provided a link to the meeting via email on 21…

The strikes planned for Thursday 19 August will be withdrawn across the country due to the nationwide Level 4 lockdown. Rosters will operate as originally scheduled.

On 5 August MERAS Co-Leader Caroline Conroy spoke to Duncan Garner on the AM show on TV Three, and to Jesse Mulligan on Afternoons at RNZ about the upcoming Midwives strike and the reasons behind…

DHB Decision Makers Not At The Table – “limits ability to negotiate” Midwives employed by DHBs will go ahead with planned rolling strikes next week after mediation on Monday failed to reach agreement. The 8-hour…

Midwives at Wellington hospitals are sometimes too busy to take breaks and new mothers have been rushed out and transferred elsewhere within a day of giving birth, as the region’s maternity units grapple with a chronic…

Midwifery Employee Representation and Advisory Service co-leader Jill Ovens told TVNZ’s Breakfast show host Jenny-May Clarkson on 16 July that she knows people who have left the profession to work as Covid-19 vaccinators, to work…

Hospital midwives who are members of the Midwifery Employee Representation and Advisory Services (MERAS) are voting over the next two weeks on an offer from the 20 DHBs to settle their Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA).…

MERAS industrial co-leader Jill Ovens spoke to Karyn Hay on Radio New Zealand about the Nurses strike on 9 June. Jill explained that the majority of midwives are members of MERAS, which is supporting the…