Nurses have taken to the streets around the country demanding more pay and a safer place to work.
They say they were gutted by the government's call to freeze the pay of most public service workers especially after putting their own lives on the line for Covid-19.
All over the country, the message has been the same. They're fed up and many say they're going to leave the profession or leave the country unless something changes.
RNZ health correspondent Rowan Quinn and cameraman Nick Monro have the story.
