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Access to safe and hygienic hospital amenities for Ambulance and Transport Officers. NewsParamedic NewsTransport

Access to safe and hygienic hospital amenities for Ambulance and Transport Officers.

Dear members, As many of you are aware it has been nearly 4 months since we first wrote to St John in regards to access to safe and hygienic hospital amenities for ambulance and transport officers. Since then we have written follow up emails to senior management at St John,…
Lee Waller
26 November 2020
SOC EBA update Call Centre NewsNews

SOC EBA update

We are pleased to announce the following results of the Communications Officers EBA vote. 54 votes cast · 92.59% of employees voted ‘Yes’ supporting the agreement 7.41.% of employees voted ‘No’ opposing the agreement. SJA now have 14 days to lodge the Agreement and associated forms with the Fair Work…
axiom
4 November 2020
The AEAWA Executive would like to acknowledge the tireless work done by our members and colleagues in SOC. Call Centre NewsNewsParamedic NewsTransport

The AEAWA Executive would like to acknowledge the tireless work done by our members and colleagues in SOC.

Our Communications Officers and Dispatchers face similar unprecedented staff shortages, mismanagement of resources, and poor morale during this very challenging period in our organisation. Our SOC colleagues are under just as much pressure as operational staff on road, indeed they are under greater pressure, facing screens full of calls which…
Lee Waller
3 November 2020
Single officer responses NewsParamedic News

Single officer responses

The AEAWA have learned that a spare / single officer was sent to a Priority 1 patient during last night's shift. This action was initiated by management and not by our SOC colleagues. The AEAWA believe this practice is extremely unsafe and puts the single officer at a much greater…
axiom
1 November 2020
Managers comments on Yammer and Microsoft Teams Call Centre NewsNewsParamedic NewsTransport

Managers comments on Yammer and Microsoft Teams

Recently you may have seen comments on Yammer / Teams from SJA senior management stating that there has been ‘significant absences’ over the roster change weekend and that the organisation intends to perform ‘absence reviews’ where ‘monitoring people’s absences’ will occur over 'roster change' and of people 'going into and…
axiom
25 October 2020
QLD’s United Workers Union (UWU) endorsing a pay freeze for their paramedics and other front line health members. NewsParamedic News

QLD’s United Workers Union (UWU) endorsing a pay freeze for their paramedics and other front line health members.

Members Please see the attached article in relation to a wage freeze for our paramedic colleagues in Queensland. The AEAWA, along with our colleagues at the Victorian Ambulance Union and the AEASA are proudly independent of political influence and allegiance. Click here to see the article.
Lee Waller
17 June 2020