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A Hato Hone St John ambulance in Ōrewa clearly displayed the crews’ ongoing anger and frustration after pay talks came to a stalemate.
Last week members of the NZ Ambulance Association and First Union withdrew their labour for the first four hours from the beginning of their shifts, on two days, Tuesday August 21 and Saturday August 24.
The strike action, which was the first in St John Ambulance’s history, came after 19 months of pay talks with funders Health NZ and ACC broke down. The unions rejected St John’s current pay offer, and St John has said it cannot afford to improve the offer without more government funding.
So far government has said it has no more money available.
