Andrew Dickens Afternoons

So here we go again.The nurses are now voting on the fifth offer from DHB’s in what is becoming a long-running saga.There’s no real new money in the latest offer other than further addressing the issue of safer staffing, and it brings forward a new top salary step for senior nurses.The union, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, is suggesting once again that nurses accept the offer. They say the nurses now have some concrete mechanisms to address the main issuess and they want to crack on putting some money in the nurse’s pockets and implement the positive stuff.So will they go for it? Who knows? Certainly, there are some nurses who are staying staunch.Comments made overnight on a Facebook group for nurses are overwhelmingly negative about the offer. The page is run by registered nurse, Danni Wilkinson, who spoke with Mike Hosking this morning.She thinks the union negotiators are over it and have lost the will to fight. She says they should be going back to DHBs and saying okay 15 percent is catch-up and we n