Ambulance crews go on work-to-rule
Monday 19th January 2009, 2:58PM GMT.
AMBULANCE Service staff are taking industrial action from today in their dispute over pay.
A statement released by the association said: ‘The Ambulance Service regrets to inform the public that despite two years of pay grade negotiations, no decision has been reached. As a result, goodwill is being removed and staff will be working to contract immediately.’
Association chairman and paramedic Charlie Gouyet said: ‘During the last two years we have undergone two independent reviews and have attended numerous meetings with the employer. Throughout these negotiations, staff have demonstrated patience and understanding.
‘However, the lack of a grade structure for emergency front-line staff and the consequent comparable indiscrepancies in pay are not acceptable. We have been left with no choice but to take action.’ It was not clear this morning how the action would affect members of the public.
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We will all just have to get ill a little slower then so they can keep up…..
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pay these people correctly they do a stirling job.
the ambulance service is very much needed, and they dont ask you if you have bupa
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I cannot believe that the paramedics are putting money before people. I thought only banking staff were guilty of that!
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Bus drivers, paramedics, sadly many employees have to “work to rule” on occasions because negotiations have not worked,or employers will not listen.
No calls to “sack” them all as some people wanted for the bus drivers.
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If the staff do not “work to rule” then what other negotiation tools do they have, going on strike would turn the public. If a member of staff in another industry did not feel appreciated they would do the same, the only reason it is an issue is because of the type of job they do.
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If you dont think the moneys good enough get a job somewhere else.
Dont hold the public to ransome.
If enough of the service left then the pay rates would have to rise to make the job atractive.
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In reply to comment 6, if members of the ambulance service left, the public’s safety would be affected. With less paramedics, response times would increase and remaining staff would be overworked. Also, it requires training to become a paramedic so those positions left vacant could not be immediately filled. I agree with comment 5, if the ambulance service did not “work to contract” how else can they negioate their pay conditions. Members of the ambulance service often work long hours, sometimes in dangerous conditions, using high level skills. They are just as entitled to negioate their pay as any other worker in Jersey. Comments such as “holding the public to ransom” and “putting money before people” are highly dramatised and distract from the main point that the Ambulance Service do a vital, highly skilled and difficult job and their pay should reflect this.
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There is a point of clarification I would like to make, that is that “some” control officers do earn more than “some” front line staff. Please do not use the blanket term inferring that this is so in all cases.
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It is intresting to hear Mike Pinel threatening States of Jersey employee’s about keeping to there contracts of employment, but what about States Departments not complying with there own contracts of employment ?? What protection is there for the employee when the employer does not honour there own contracts for the employment.
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