Around 10,000 health professionals are on strike today over an ongoing pay equity dispute.
The health workers include anaesthetic and laboratory technicians, dental assistants and alcohol and drug counsellors.
The industrial action will disrupt several services and comes after unhappiness last week elsewhere in the health sector when the government decided to leave nurses off its priority group on the immigration Greenlist.
We'd normally be speaking to the Prime Minister this morning but she is at home isolating until Saturday after contracting Covid-19.
Senior minister Megan Woods spoke to Susie Ferguson in her space.
