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Article: Vic: Private ambulance officers strike over pay talks
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- February 19, 2002
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Vic: Private ambulance officers strike over pay talks
MELBOURNE, Feb 19 AAP - More than 100 ambulance officers from a
private patient transport
company walked off the job this morning over failed enterprise agreement
negotiations.
The Victorian Patient Transport employees went on strike shortly
after 6am (AEDT) and
will picket company offices in Essendon, Mulgrave and Mornington until
midday.
Ambulance Employees' Association general secretary Rod Morris said
the workers had
been in enterprise agreement negotiations for almost two years, but
the company had failed
to make them any offer for increased pay and conditions.
He said the company, now owned by ...