Resident doctors are set to strike again, just weeks after they walked off the job throughout New Zealand to fight for safer working hours.
Yesterday, the Resident Doctors' Association announced they would strike again. This time, newly qualified doctors will join the strike. The 48-hour strike is expected to begin at 7am on November 23.
National secretary of the New Zealand Resident Doctors' Association Dr Deborah Powell said: ''Whilst we had hoped to get the new rosters agreed before another graduating class was exposed to the old unsafe system, that simply has not been possible.
"This bargaining has become so protracted it became inevitable if we didn't get settlement this week that this would be the outcome.
"However, our new colleagues have been following the issue closely and also voted overwhelmingly to take strike action.''