Paramedics to rally against union

PARAMEDICS will be taking to the streets of Sydney to protest against their forced membership with the troubled Health Services Union (HSU).

They will be joined today by doctors from the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and politicians, including NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner and Greens MP David Shoebridge, who will address the rally when it reaches Parliament House.

Emergency Medical Service Protection Association (EMSPA) spokesman Wayne Flint said paramedics had chosen the slogan freedom of choice, give us a voice for the rally.

The HSU has long been an ineffective union for both junior doctors and paramedics but the law says it's the only union for us, he said.

AMA NSW vice president Saxon Smith said the march wasn't industrial action and only off-duty paramedics would take part.

There are still two sitting days of parliament ahead of the winter recess, Dr Smith said.

The need to provide an escape route to junior doctors and paramedics is urgent and that means that bill needs to be passed now.

A report commissioned by the HSU and conducted by the former Commonwealth director of public prosecutions, Ian Temby QC, which was released on April 30, found the HSU East branch awarded $17 million of dodgy tenders and had no credit card policies.

Eastern branches of the Health Services Union were last week placed into administration and its officers suspended by a Federal Court judge.

The paramedics will march from the HSU Pitt Street office at 11am (AEST) to arrived at NSW Parliament by midday.

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