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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Health
Damon Cronshaw

'Continuous betrayal since the election': Paramedics take strike action

Brendan McIlveen, a paramedic at Hamilton Ambulance Station, said 'we're asking for an acceptable pay rise'. Picture by Jonathan Carroll

Hunter paramedics defied an Industrial Relations Commission order to hold 12-hour strike action on Friday, escalating their campaign for "equitable wages and improved working conditions".

On Thursday afternoon, the Industrial Relations Commission sensationally blocked the action, planned from 7am to 7pm.

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