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Paramedics protest outside New South Wales parliament
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Paramedics employed by the Ambulance Service of New South Wales in Australia marched on the New South Wales parliament today. They called for the Government to sack Ambulance Service of New South Wales CEO Greg Rochford, hire 300 additional ambulance officers and 60 patient transport officers. Paramedics gave the Government 48 hours to agree to the proposed staffing levels or face industrial action.
"We are currently at the same levels of staffing that we had in 2002 and these not withstanding, also there's been an increase in workload of 5 per cent per year every year since then," said Health Services Union general secretary Michael Williamson.
The union also called for chief executive Greg Roachford and other senior management to be sacked over what has been described as a culture of bullying.
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