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Speaker 1: Seeingior doctors have an hours that they're going to go

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Speaker 1: on strike on the first of May for a full day,

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours. It means around four three hundred planned

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Speaker 1: procedures and first specialist assessments and up to four thousand,

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Speaker 1: three hundred radiology procedures will have to be canceled now.

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Speaker 1: Sarah Dalton is the executive director of the Association of

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Speaker 1: Salaried Medical Specialists. Say Sarah Kelder, Heather, how are you

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Speaker 1: doing very well? Thank you? What is it that you

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Speaker 1: guys are after?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've put an a claim for twelve percent. One

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Speaker 2: of the reasons for that is that the RMOS some

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Speaker 2: people call them junior doctors, received quite good pay settlements

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Speaker 2: last year. That has means that some of those junior

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Speaker 2: doctors when they become a specialist, take a pay cut.

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Speaker 2: So it's really about trying to maintain relativities between SMOs

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Speaker 2: and RMOS.

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Speaker 1: Is that twelve percent on top of the average salary,

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Speaker 1: which is what three hundred and forty three thousand dollars?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god. If our members were earning on average

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Speaker 2: three hundred and forty thousand dollars, there would be no strike.

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Speaker 2: And if that is an offer from the minister. We

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Speaker 2: would love to accept it. That is a made up number, unfortunately, Is.

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Speaker 3: It made up?

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Speaker 1: Because because a twelve percent pay increase on top of

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Speaker 1: that is forty thousand dollars. It's quite a lot y.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but our members aren't earning on average three hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty thousand dollars. Now, we wouldn't need a twelve

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Speaker 2: percent pay increase. Is that that that was actual average

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Speaker 2: way incomes?

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Speaker 1: Its realistic.

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Speaker 2: I'll probably closer to.

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Speaker 3: Two hundred and forty thousand, which still sounds like a lot, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but we have to think about what senior doctors actually

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Speaker 3: do because it's still a pay increase of what it

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Speaker 3: would be around about thirty thousand bucks, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's a serious increase that our members are

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Speaker 2: looking for a serious work that we do and we

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Speaker 2: don't have enough doctors here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Samon Brown has gone public with not only the

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Speaker 1: average salary, but also six weeks of annual leaf fully paid,

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Speaker 1: three months of baticals every six years, reimbursement for medical licenses,

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Speaker 1: college memberships and insurance and so on. I guess kind

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Speaker 1: of trying to win win the public relations battle there.

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Speaker 1: Do you think you're up against it. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: He's also put in his document about the Direction for

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Speaker 2: the Health System put out at the beginning of March,

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Speaker 2: that New Zealand nurses earn almost the same amount as

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Speaker 2: our newss in New South Wales. If there was the

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Speaker 2: case for doctors again, we wouldn't have this problem. There

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Speaker 2: was a massive pay gap between New Zealand and Australia

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Speaker 2: and we are losing doctors to that country.

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Speaker 1: Sarah, thanks very much for talking to us at Sarah Dalton,

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Speaker 1: the executive director of the Association of Salary Medical Specialists.

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