The following are a list of things you could consider doing on the 23rd and 24th of September as part of the two-day nationwide strike.
- Join a one-hour picket line (check with your local activists committee)
- Write to your MP (and the PM) and explain what service shortfalls you’re currently dealing with and how that limits care to patients (and erodes job satisfaction)
- Write to Dale Bramley (HNZ CEO) inviting him to visit your service. Outline your key priorities. Explain what you should be doing and what you’re actually doing.
- Sign the Buller Declaration petition — and set yourself a goal to collect 50 signatures during the strike period [link]
- Give blood
- Stay home and read that book you’ve had your eye on
- Have a sleep in
- Spend some time with your kids, dog, partner, family, friends
- Spend some time alone
- Use the time to do some life admin
- Do some volunteering
- Drop off some goods to a food shelter, curtain supply, refuge, etc…
- Join UnionAid
- Remember that the key requirement of industrial action is the withdrawal of your labour. Not going to work is enough
- Organise a team activity — a walk, pizza lunch, baking for good bitches (or similar), go ten pin bowling or for a spring swim.
- Make some social media posts – engage in respectful disagreement with people who say there’s plenty of money and resources in our health system and it’s just a matter of lifting staff productivity.