Nurses membership to be compulsory?
PA Auckland The Nurses’ Association will try again for compulsory. membership. But although that is the association’s policy, , the annual 7 conference yesterday was told that a clause Jin the State .Services Act forbade them to implement it. The Canterbury branch moved that the executive look again into possible ways Of getting compulsory membership. ThO, chairman of the legislation subcommittee,; Sharon Driscoll, said any move that
way would “cut right across National Party policy.” She said previous efforts had been thwarted because “the political climate just didn’t suit. it.” She felt it was improbable that the policy- would be implemented. The delegate for the North Shore branch, Mrs Lea Lysaght, said apathy among nurses was "appalling.” • With a compulsory membership, the "■ association could . afford professional services, rather -than falling back on “willing horses,” she said.
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