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Their union, the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, said they were asking for a moderate pay rise but the DHBs were offering no pay increase.
It is asking members to stop work for up to two hours next month to discuss their next steps.
A spokesperson for district health boards said they were factoring the government s expectation about employment relations and pay into their negotiations.
ASMS executive director Sarah Dalton said in a statement specialists were fatigued and suffering high levels of burnout as they juggled entrenched staffing shortages, overflowing hospitals and overstretched services.
They had also absorbed additional pressures due to the Covid-19 backlog.
Burnt-out nurses told to rely on each other as counselling services full
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