Strikes

Workers at Dunedin's Redroofs Rest Home voted yesterday to continue with strike action, Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU) organiser Ann Galloway said.

The long-running radiographers' dispute has been settled, but people on both sides of the issue are calling for scrutiny of industrial relations processes.

National certificate of educational achievement (NCEA) exams begin in less than two months, and Otago secondary school teachers are concerned about the effect of planned strike action on their pupils' preparations for the exams.

"When you kick teachers, you kick the kids." The slogan, being shaken on a placard, made the Post Primary Teachers' Association's message loud and clear during strike action in Dunedin yesterday.

Minister of Education Anne Tolley had until this week hunkered down for the long game over the implementation of National Standards.

A rally planned by Post Primary Teachers Association members at Cromwell on September 15 has been cancelled, but their strike that day is still on.

The Southern District Health Board is working to manage the likely disruption from tomorrow's 24-hour radiographers' strike, diagnostic and support services Otago general manager Sonja Dillon says.

Otago secondary school teachers may take strike action next month and have not ruled out further action after their union, the Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA), voted overwhelmingly to reject the Government's latest pay offer.