In short:
About 50,000 nurses and midwives have walked off the job across NSW.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association have been in an ongoing pay dispute with the government, brought to a head this week after police were offered a historic 39 per cent increase.
What’s next?
The NSW government is considering arbitration in the Industrial Relations Commission.
It is quite odd. Also odd that they would agree to so much while still negotiating on so many other fronts. Would have made more sense for government to agree to all at the same time, benchmarked against each other.