A nurse caught in the battle for better pay says her colleagues may have voted for the latest offer just to get it over with.
The Nurses' Organisation and District Health Boards will meet on Tuesday morning to discuss the latest offer.
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It's hoped the meeting will bring an end to the deadlock after the nurses' union rejected four pay offers since negotiations began a year ago.
However nurse Danni Wilkinson fears many would have voted in favour of the deal just to put an end to the long process.
"I think a lot of people are voting yes not because they accept this is a good deal but because they are tired," she says.
"This has been drawn out for a long, long time and this feels like a defeat."
Ms Wilkinson says her colleagues on the front line are torn over whether they want the deal, and many are worn down by the long process.
"I really hope it's a no vote but I just think it's going a yes and I think it's going to be close," she says.
"There's a lot of angry nurses out there still who recognize that this has been the same deal that they've said no to a couple of times before.
"But either way I think we're going to have a lot of very angry, disillusioned, disappointed, downhearted nurses."
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