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Speaker 1: Good news Saint John and the workers. They've settled their

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Speaker 1: pay dispute. The government's going to be injecting another twenty

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Speaker 1: one million into the charity, brings the total funding perannum

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Speaker 1: to three point fifty seven million. We had some industrial

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Speaker 1: action that ended last week. Members voted in favor of

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Speaker 1: the latest settlement officer offer and now the first union

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Speaker 1: National Organizer for Emergency Services famer CAN is with us. Fay,

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Speaker 1: good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Well what number did you get? What did it end

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Speaker 1: up with? Pay rise wise?

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Speaker 2: So staff thought most of the staff got a three

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Speaker 2: point two five percent pay increase. Dumb staff who were

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Speaker 2: paid below the living wage ended up getting just over

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Speaker 2: a nine percent increase, and that's to bump them up

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Speaker 2: to the living wage.

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Speaker 1: Does that make you happier? Are you going to be

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Speaker 1: going around again?

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Speaker 2: It's definitely a band aid, folks, I mean, any more

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Speaker 2: funding that goes into the ambulance services. Obviously a win

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Speaker 2: in terms of the settlement we're going to be embarking

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Speaker 2: next year. It still hasn't really fixed the problems that

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Speaker 2: we were concerned about, but certainly it's alleviated some of

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Speaker 2: the financial burden that people.

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Speaker 1: Are finding them correct me if I'm wrong. There seems

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Speaker 1: to be a New Zealand first lead type thing. They've

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Speaker 1: always been keen on funding the ambulance service in a

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Speaker 1: better way than it has been previously. Are we getting

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Speaker 1: close to it basically being a government department like the

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Speaker 1: emergency services generally?

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Speaker 2: I think that we're still actually quite far away from that.

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Speaker 2: I think some of it is the fact that Saint

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Speaker 2: John wasn't saying they wanted to be fully funded until

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Speaker 2: very recently, so that obviously makes it a bit difficult

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Speaker 2: from our member's perspective. Absolutely, they want it to be

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Speaker 2: government led. I think there's a lot of questions around

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Speaker 2: how it's run in general, and actually it makes it

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Speaker 2: very difficult with them being a charity to find out

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Speaker 2: that information and that's not what it should be for

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Speaker 2: an ambulance service.

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Speaker 1: Do we need to change all that?

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Speaker 2: I believe.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: We've also got Wellington Free, who's all fill a charity

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Speaker 2: that they haven't had any announcements for their funding. But

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Speaker 2: the assumption would be that if you've put a band

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Speaker 2: aid on one and surely you need to put a

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Speaker 2: band aid on the.

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Speaker 1: Other, well, said Faie. Appreciated Famer can Who's with the

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Speaker 1: First Union.

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