We've made history — we haven't been silenced,' Gisborne Hospital Ward 5 nurse Christine Warrander told Kaitiaki Nursing New Zealand following the Employment Court decision. The Employment Court ruled in favour of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa after an 11th-hour legal attempt by Te Whatu Ora to block a one-hour strike. The strike went ahead on Wednesday May 24. In his ruling, Judge Kerry Smith drew heavily on affidavits from six Gisborne nurses describing emotional and mental stress, exhaustion from relentless overwork, lack of breaks and fears over making patient errors.

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