Hundreds of ambulance workers employed by St John will undertake a series of strikes in November.
First union said in a statement the strike action was being taken due to a lack of extra pay for when workers are rostered on for weekends and nights. According to the union St John has claimed the extra pay has been factored into the hourly rate."The starting rate is below $20 an hour, if recognition payments for night and weekend work are factored into this, many ambulance professionals would have to be on below the minimum wage," First Union divisional secretary Jared Abbott said.
"To claim that the current rates account for shift recognition is incorrect. New Zealand's Ambulance Professionals are amongst the lowest paid in the developed world."The union said strike action was served to St John at the beginning of the week. The strike action means staff will not be covering work where other staff have been removed from duty to do event work."Event work, which is commercial income for St John, often gets priority over frontline services, so by refusing to come off the frontline to cover events actually makes more ambulance officers available for the public service. Action will begin on November 14 and continue until an agreement is reached. Members have also voted in favour of two further strike actions.
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Poll: When should the tree go up? 🎄
From what we've heard, some Christmas trees are already being assembled and decorated.
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35% Whenever you wish
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Don’t Wash Your Hair In The Shower
It’s so good to finally get a “Health Warning” that is useful.
It involves the shampoo when it runs down your body when you shower with it… a warning to us all!”
I don’t know why I didn’t figure this out sooner!
I use shampoo in the shower when I wash my hair.
The shampoo runs down my whole body and printed very clearly on the shampoo label is this warning: “For Extra Body & Volume”
No wonder I have been gaining weight!
Well I got rid of that shampoo.
I am going to start showering with Dawn dishwashing Soap instead.
The label reads: “Dissolves Fat” that is otherwise difficult to remove.
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