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Updated: October 29, 2009 5:04 PM
Editor:
Our provincial paramedics are being so overworked since their “non-strike” began April 1/09 they’re dropping like flies.
This can’t go on.
They are being exhausted and so are more prone to injuries on the job. (backs and knees, etc.)
Some are taking early retirement and some are leaving to join police and fire departments who’s rookies make more to start than a paramedic with 30 years experience.
Paramedics are deemed an essential service so they can’t actually go on strike.
When they are “on strike” they can’t hire any new people so the staff they have are being forced to work, even on their days off!
This can’t go on!
Being a paramedic can be a fast paced, stressful and sometimes dangerous job.
They must make life and death decisions all day long. This is pretty hard to do without some down time.
They work side by side with police and fire departments and yet they make 30 per cent less per year.
Does this sound fair to you? Surely they deserve wage parity.
I’m not suggesting that they get it all at once.
Perhaps it could be a10 per cent raise for the next three years or something like that.
If we don’t do something to help these brave and very essential people to stay on the job, happy and rested, we won’t have any left to answer our calls for help.
Please contact your local MLA’s or non emergency B.C. Ambulance Service office, etc.
Let’s tell them we want to keep our paramedics.
We do have a say in this!
J. Brown
Quesnel
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