Ambulance officers stop work

Issue 

BRISBANE — Ambulance officers around Queensland stopped work on October 26 to demand improvements in staffing and working conditions, in the first statewide strike in history. Around 500 paramedics and their families demonstrated outside the Kedron Park emergency services complex.

Ambulance Services Australia called the stop-work, arguing that the service had inadequate resources — especially a lack of highly trained staff — to cope with increasing workloads.

Bill Mason

From Green Left Weekly, November 2, 2005.
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