22/10/2025
๐๐๐ Community Pharmacy Standing with Super-Strike ๐๐๐
Today thousands of essential workers will take to the streets to demand fair pay, safe staffing, and sustainable funding.
Community pharmacy wonโt be among them โ but weโll be cheering loudly from behind the counter.
Why canโt we join?
Under NZ law, pharmacists must hold effective control of their pharmacies. That means pharmacist owners are company directors โ and if we were to coordinate a โstrike,โ it could be called collusion.
Itโs the same safeguard that Eric Crampton recently labelled a โcartel.โ
But what it really protects is public safety โ it ensures the person responsible for your medicines is a health professional, not a distant executive chasing profit KPI.
So while others march, community pharmacists will keep the doors open โ not because we donโt care, but because the system makes it almost impossible for us to stand together in protest.
We believe in adequate, sustainable government funding. We believe in safe staffing levels to ensure health professionals can do their jobs.
We see you. We stand with you.
And weโll keep doing what weโve always done โ fighting for sustainable funding, a supported workforce, and safe, local care for every whฤnau. ๐๐ช
