UPDATE: Govt, DHBs say no more funding available ahead of nurses strike

UPDATE: Govt, DHBs say no more funding available ahead of nurses strike
Sophie Boot
(Recasts to add detail from government, DHB press conferences) By Sophie Boot July 10 (BusinessDesk) - Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters says the pay offer to nurses won't be increased after the nurses' union rejected another pay offer from the district health boards this morning. The nurses are set to strike on Thursday, their first in 30 years, though some staff have agreed to provide life-preserving services during the strike. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation and DHBs will go back into Employment Relations Authority-facilitate...