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Speaker 1: We know that it had sort of been planned that

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Speaker 1: they were going to take that industrial action. I think

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Speaker 1: it was earlier this week, but that strike has been

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Speaker 1: pushed back to the third of December. And joining me

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Speaker 1: on the line from United Voice CDs, Erina Early. Good morning, Erina,

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Speaker 1: Morning Katie, thanks so much for your time this morning. Now, Erina,

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Speaker 1: what is the situation as it currently stands when you

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Speaker 1: are planning on taking When are they planning that industrial action?

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Speaker 2: So, Katie, So the industry action was planned for Tuesday

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Speaker 2: this week, but due to the cyclone, our delegates suggested

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Speaker 2: let's push it back a week because a lot of

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Speaker 2: people are impacted by the cyclone. So we've got it

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Speaker 2: scheduled for next Wednesday, the third of December.

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Speaker 1: Erina, The weeks are all merging at the moment, following

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Speaker 1: on from that bloody cyclone. I thought I couldn't remember

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Speaker 1: if it was earlier this week or when it was.

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Speaker 1: So what are they planning exactly? I know you'd told

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Speaker 1: us that they were looking at sort of having an

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Speaker 1: hour where they they stood down from work. That was

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Speaker 1: the plan earlier this week. What's the go for the

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Speaker 1: third of December?

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Speaker 2: The third of December is we've got walk off for

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Speaker 2: an hour, and then we've got walkoffs for two hours.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's all in the one day or over it.

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Speaker 2: All on the same day, So all the hospitals across

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Speaker 2: the NT will be walking off at the same time,

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Speaker 2: and including the bochanical gardens here in Darwin.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how many are you expecting to walk off the job?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got the Health Services Union joining us as well.

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Speaker 2: They'll be joining in the walk off, so we're expecting

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Speaker 2: really nearly a thousand workers are going to be involved.

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Speaker 1: And talk us through what kind of workers I know

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Speaker 1: that I mentioned a little while ago, you know some

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Speaker 1: that we understand. It will include like the cleaners, water assistance, radiographers,

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Speaker 1: catering stuff. But talk us through what kind of stuff

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Speaker 1: we are expecting to walk off the job.

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Speaker 2: So, as you've mentioned there, Katie, so we're going to

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Speaker 2: have catering staff, our housekeeping, radiographers, scenographers, we've got allied

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Speaker 2: health professionals as well from the Health Services Union. We've

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Speaker 2: got arbitros and our horticulturists as botanical gardens, we've got biomedical,

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Speaker 2: we've got the sterilization teams. There's many that come under

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Speaker 2: that will be walking off next.

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Speaker 1: Week and what do they want to see? Erona, like,

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Speaker 1: what is the hope from this walk off?

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Speaker 2: I think Katie, it's not just about money, Katie. It's

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Speaker 2: basically it's over the years, as you know, we've got

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Speaker 2: a broken health system and they really want to it's

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Speaker 2: about discussing with people and trying to have a strong

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Speaker 2: voice about there is these issues, and it's about government

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Speaker 2: accountability within the health. It's about rostering, it's about fatigue management,

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Speaker 2: it's about attraction and attention, and they generally feel that

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Speaker 2: the Commission of Public Employment and of them and aren't

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Speaker 2: listening to them.

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Speaker 1: Erin a bit of a side note, but have many

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Speaker 1: of the stuff said much to you about the bricks

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Speaker 1: and about the damage to the hospital as well following

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Speaker 1: on from the cyclone.

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Speaker 2: A few of them are spoken to us Katie. A

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Speaker 2: lot of them were like, oh my god, something could

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Speaker 2: have been walking under there. They're really happy that no

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Speaker 2: one really got injured. In regards to it's quite scary.

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Speaker 2: A few of them have said they knew something like

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Speaker 2: this would happen, you know, they were quite surprised that's

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Speaker 2: happened so late. They thought it would have happened years ago,

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Speaker 2: but most of them are in good spirits because they

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Speaker 2: were busy, they were working that night, et cetera. They

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Speaker 2: had other priorities to deal with. They just kept on

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Speaker 2: going with their jobs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and you know what, so many Territorians just

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Speaker 1: digging in on the weekend and helping one another out,

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Speaker 1: which is a wonderful thing to say.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's fantastic. It really was such all the community

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Speaker 2: coming together was absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: Well erin early. I'll be really interested to see how

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Speaker 1: things sort of go next week with that walk off,

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Speaker 1: I won't be at work, but please keep us up

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Speaker 1: to date with how things track along. And no doubt

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you again in the new year.

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Speaker 2: No worries, you definitely will. Thanks Katie, had a lovely day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you you too,