Health Services Union NSW Secretary Gerard Hayes says NSW paramedics are going ahead with a strike despite the premier’s pleas to wait for the budget in the hopes they will be able to negotiate a better pay increase.
Around 1,000 New South Wales paramedics will strike over a pay dispute today despite Premier Gladys Berejiklian saying the upcoming state budget will include a package for workers.
The action is in opposition to a 1.5 per cent pay increase offer from the government and paramedics will refuse to respond to non-life-threatening calls for 24 hours, but serious callouts will not be affected.
Mr Hayes told Sky News "I don’t think there’s an opportunity to negotiate" in two weeks time when the budget has been printed.
“I think it’s very decent of the premier to say that but we’re not big on surprises, we like to be open, transparent and scrutiny should be able to be applied,” he said.
NSW paramedics will go to urgent, life-threatening jobs but won t attend less serious incidents like a broken arm. It has has not been approved by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission.
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