WEST Australian nurses have voted to accept the state government's eleventh-hour wage offer.
They will become the highest paid nurses in the nation after their wages rise 14 per cent over the next three years.
Australian Nurses Federation (ANF) members held a mass meeting in North Perth on Monday to vote on the offer, which Premier Colin Barnett announced late on Sunday on the eve of a threatened 24-hour strike.
The vote in favour of accepting the offer was not unanimous, however.
The stand-off last week, which saw some hospital beds closed, has proved highly distracting for Mr Barnett during the state election campaign.
At a press conference on Monday, the premier denied he'd been blackmailed by the ANF and said he hoped the dispute didn't set a precedent for other unions.
But within hours, the WA Prison Officers Union (WAPOU) said members would meet on Wednesday to plan a pre-election campaign in a bid to secure higher pay.
The union has long complained of overcrowded, understaffed prisons that meant inmates and officers were at greater risk of violence.
WAPOU secretary John Welch said officers had not planned to take industrial action during the election period.
"However, the government's offer to nurses in breach of the pre-election caretaker convention suggests the only pathway to a fair pay offer is industrial action; that it only listens to unions who threaten strike action," Mr Welch said.
"We started in September last year to get the government to negotiate with us but to no avail."
Mr Barnett has been at pains to say the nurses' deal was not in breach of the caretaker conventions because it would not be signed until after the March 9 poll.
Under the conventions, the deal could be negotiated and agreed to in principle, however.
Mr Welch said WAPOU would write to the premier later on Monday to say prison officers expected a decent pay offer.
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