It’s been such a long time since I’ve posted to this blog. I apologise to our regular readers from the bottom of my depressed heart.

You see, there’s been some union-ing goin’ on. And it’s been makin’ me sad.

In fact, of all of the workplaces I’ve ever worked in (and there’s been more than a few), I have never seen such low morale.

Paramedics are just fed up with the enterprise bargaining process and how hamstrung we’ve been by Free Work Australia (FWA) or whatever it’s called.

Unlike just about any other occupation or field of work we paramedics can’t express ourselves with any form of industrial action. No strikes, no stopworks, no overtime bans (despite overtime being voluntary). Even our MICA paramedics have been threatened with mass sackings for expressing their concerns.

Anyhoo, this has been an ill-worded, grammatically rubbish post but I think you get the point.

So in a nutshell:

We, the paramedics of Victoria, feel shafted by the Victorian Government and by our own union, and there’s nothing we can do about it.

Cheers!