More than 35,000 nurses walked off the job following nearly a year of deadlocked negotiations between Health New Zealand and the union over pay and working conditions. The Nurses Organisation says the offer currently on the table is a massive step backwards and an effective pay cut when compared to the cost of living. Some of the striking nurses, placards in hand, gathered outside Simeon Brown's Pakuranga electorate office, where the minister had signed off on a hand made sign of his own. District Nurse Rose Maber was protesting outside. She talks to Lisa Owen.