08-08-2022, 03:08 PM
I found a few links.
https://www.fireandemergency.nz/news-and...-increase/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/4722...-low-wages
"Firefighters are set to strike in two-weeks time, after the Union rejected the latest pay offer from Fire and Emergency.
The one-hour strike will take place between 11am and 12pm on the morning of 19 August, and again on August 26.
Professional Firefighters Union secretary Wattie Watson told Morning Report they might not have enough volunteer firefighters to cover the strike period.
"We are hoping in mediation next week that we will be able to resolve the situation but that is a possibility that for an hour FENZ will have a very limited ability to respond to fires," Watson said.
The strike would be the first of its kind as while firefighters took similar action 25-30 years ago this would be the first nationwide strike, she said.
"This is a really serious situation and it's taken a lot for the members a lot to get to this point," she said.
FENZ had issued a statement saying there would be contingency plans available to cover the lack of firefighters on call during the strike, Watson said.
"The pay offer is too low... FENZ has removed any offer to pay a base wage increase for 2021 and instead is offering to pay from 1 July 2022.
"It's essentially a three-year deal and for a lot of our members for that three years that will be between eight and 12 percent."
Firefighters and all of the union's members had last received a pay rise on 1 July 2020, she said.
The firefighters also wanted safer systems at work, she said."
https://www.fireandemergency.nz/news-and...-increase/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/4722...-low-wages
"Firefighters are set to strike in two-weeks time, after the Union rejected the latest pay offer from Fire and Emergency.
The one-hour strike will take place between 11am and 12pm on the morning of 19 August, and again on August 26.
Professional Firefighters Union secretary Wattie Watson told Morning Report they might not have enough volunteer firefighters to cover the strike period.
"We are hoping in mediation next week that we will be able to resolve the situation but that is a possibility that for an hour FENZ will have a very limited ability to respond to fires," Watson said.
The strike would be the first of its kind as while firefighters took similar action 25-30 years ago this would be the first nationwide strike, she said.
"This is a really serious situation and it's taken a lot for the members a lot to get to this point," she said.
FENZ had issued a statement saying there would be contingency plans available to cover the lack of firefighters on call during the strike, Watson said.
"The pay offer is too low... FENZ has removed any offer to pay a base wage increase for 2021 and instead is offering to pay from 1 July 2022.
"It's essentially a three-year deal and for a lot of our members for that three years that will be between eight and 12 percent."
Firefighters and all of the union's members had last received a pay rise on 1 July 2020, she said.
The firefighters also wanted safer systems at work, she said."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)