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Ambulance Employees Australia - Victoria (AEAV)

All Updates

000VIC OHS Survey Results and Next steps

Thanks to everyone who took the Health and Safety Survey! Respondents rated...

000VIC Bargaining Update

The government has advised 000VIC that they are on track to receive...

Dep Health Paramedic Practitioner Legislative Amendments

The union has been consulted on the proposed legislative amendments to allow...

Your Advisory Group Update

On 27 August 2024, the Your Advisory Group met to review Ambulance...

Ketamine Exposure Survey

David Shanahan, an Intensive Care Paramedic and master’s student at Monash University,...

Triple Zero CEO Responds to Union Members re BalSECC Clinicians

On 21 August 2024, AEAV wrote on behalf of union members to...

Union Presents Position on Ambulance Victoria Restructure; Board to Discuss Pause

This morning, Julie Graham from Ambulance Victoria contacted the UWU to see...

Removal of Clinician role at Triple Zero BalSECC

AEAV has written on behalf of union members to the Health Minister,...

COVID-19 Mandate Lift for Healthcare Workers

Secretary Directions were introduced on 13 October 2022, mandating COVID-19 vaccination for...

Admin Members Vote

Ambulance Victoria Admin Union Members are voting on whether they endorse the...

UWU Ambulance Union Event

The union is hosting another exciting day of networking, inspiring speakers, and...

Support OHS Reps. Take our Survey!

Support Union OHS Reps! Take our Survey! Delegates and Health and Safety...

Ambulance Victoria Restructure

AV is undergoing its second wave of restructuring, and some administrative staff...

VEOHRC Meeting

Last week, union officials met with officials from the Victorian Equal Opportunity...

Non-Operational Role Review Proposal

UWU Non-Operational Role Review Proposal

Union Win!

Recently, Union Delegate Sharyne Doensen made a request that Triple Zero advertise...

Transition to Retirement

Have you previously worked as an ACO before becoming a Paramedic? This...

Volunteer Leadership Program

Do you volunteer in emergency services? Australia’s ability to respond to disasters...

ACOs Action List

New Protected Industrial Action can commence on Wednesday 12 June! Here is...

Clinicians Action List

Protected Industrial Action for Clinicians can commence on 14 Jul 2024! Here...

TM STM Action List

Protected Industrial Action can start on 1 July 2024! Here is a...

PABO 2 A RESOUNDING SUCCESS!

Congratulations to union members who voted to take further industrial action! 92.5%...

Admin Letter to Ambulance Victoria CEO Jane Miller

UWU Admin Members have courageously advocated for the abolition of the Mercer...

Admin Action List

ADMIN ACTION LIST 26.03.2024

Bargaining Facilitation

During the compulsory Conference at the Fair Work Commission, it was decided...

Admin Members Notify AV

Admin union members employed at Ambulance Victoria have notified their employer that...

Without Fleet, Everything Stops!

Fleet Maintenance Officers are enthusiastically embarking on unprecedented industrial action this week....

TZV Bargaining Update

UWU, in alliance with CWU, UFU, and VAU, is nearing an in-principle...

Admin 1st Actions

Today Administrative union members of Ambulance Victoria notified their employer of their...

Letter to the Women's Minister

United Workers Union – Minister Hutchins

DAY ONE - Protected Action at AV

Today is DAY ONE of protected action for Paramedics and Fleet Maintenance...

AV Second Package Offer

Last Thursday, Ambulance Victoria provided two second package offers for union members...

Triple Zero Intimidated By Union Members

Triple Zero were rattled before Christmas when photos of calls waiting turned...

Geelong FMOs Save AV 31k But Still Go Unrecognised

Over a ten-month period, the Geelong Fleet Maintenance team undertook the disinfection...

AV Offer 2024

Ambulance Victoria’s EBA Offer includes a 3% annual salary increase and a...

AV Bargaining Update

Recently on-road Union Leaders have been present at bargaining sessions. Their direct...

$50 when signing up to CoPower Electricity

UWU members receive a $50 signup credit when switching electricity to CoPower, an...

Professional Indemnity Insurance

Paramedics can now download their Certificate of Currency for Professional Indemnity Insurance...

Alarming, yet business as usual - State of the public sector

The UWU Strategic Power team put together a report from the June...

Wages policy and public sector priorities

The Victorian Government has finally released its wages policy and public sector...

UWU - Voice to Parliament

The Uluru Statement from the Heart has long been supported by members...

UWU/AEAV International Women’s Day event on March 8

In every state and across every industry, women workers in Australia are...

Welcome Back

Happy New Year to all our members. We hope that everyone has...

Full Penalties Unpaid at ESTA

On the 11th of October 2022 the AEAV wrote to ESTA to...

Underpayments at AV: Correspondence from the Minister for Health and Ambulance Services

Please follow the link HERE to read correspondence from the Minister for...

Response to Trevor Weston ABC interview

On the 6th of August 2022 a Mildura netballer lay on the...

DEPARTURE OF AV CHAIR NECESSARY TO CHANGE CULTURE

The AEAV welcomes the news today that Ken Lay has tendered his...

Ambulance Active - Winter 2022

Are ambulance performance indicators fit for purpose? Victorian’s have recently seen their...

ESTA Bargaining - Have Your Say

Letter to Dept of Health re: Rosters Wage Theft

On the 13th of July, the union wrote to the Department of...

Ambulance Victoria Needs a Performance Review

Ambulance Employees Australia Victoria (AEAV) is calling for an independent review of...

AV MOU – Surge scale back

After recent pressure regarding AV’s continued reliance on the surge workforce, AV...

Recruitment Processes – will they ever learn?

In late 2021 the AEAV commenced a grievance on behalf of a...

ESTA MOU Update

The current ESTA MOU covering pandemic demand response initiatives expires at the...

Gippsland A/RD Email re Clearing times

On Tuesday 21 June 2022 the A/RD for Gippsland Ross Salathiel, sent...

8/6 Dual Pandemic Crewing - Is It Working?

AEAV members continue to raise concerns about the 8/6 dual paramedic crewing...

ESTA Capability & Service Review Published

Mr. Graham Ashton’s Capability and Service Review of ESTA has been published...

MOU Extension

Interim CEO Stephen Leane has called for a series of meetings to...

Current Worksafe Incidents

AV – Clearing hospital KPI In March 2022 we made a notification...

AEAV refuses to apologise for holding AV Exec to account

In March 2022 the AEAV wrote to the AV Board calling for...

Commencing Practice - Request for Mercer Review

**Update – You can read Ambulance Victoria’s dismissive response to the union’s...

FTS Win External Review

Recently the Financial Transactional Services (FTS) team members signed a petition asking...

NPT Log of Claims - #1

Negotiations for the National Patient Transport 2022 enterprise agreement opened on the...

Political leaders dodge accountability for health system failures

It seems inconceivable that after more than 2 years of everyone focusing...

AEAV Letter to Minister for Health

On the 14th of April 2022, AEAV wrote to the Minister for...

ESTA Data Access

The union has worked through 13 of the 37 data set requests...

Final Report of the Independent Review into Workplace Equality in Ambulance Victoria

Volume 1: Final Report of the Independent Review into Workplace Equality in...

Women in Leadership Scholarship

CAA Women in Leadership Scholarship 2022 information The Women in Leadership Working...

Fleet Maintenance Officers Getting It Done!

Check out this wrecked ambulance Fleet Maintenance Officer (FMO) David Berry from...

ANOTHER INDEPENDENT REVIEW ANOTHER LINE IN THE SAND

Written by Darren Law for Ambulance Active I recently resigned as a...

AV VACIS KPI is unrealistic and unsafe

Since 2015 AV have been pushing arbitrarily set KPI’s in an effort...

PCU Harm Continues Over 3 Months After VEOHRC Outcomes

In recent months the AEAV has been advocating for numerous members who...

Interrupted VACIS

Members have had questions about their rights when they’re called to another...

AEAV Wins Recruitment Concession by AV

After years of Ambulance Victoria (AV) failing many of its staff with...

Free Trauma Training Opportunity

Phoenix Australia, affiliated with the University of Melbourne, is offering training in...

Best Practice Not Applied To Recruitment Process

AEAV is challenging Ambulance Victoria’s recruitment processes and calling out the service...

Letter to Health Minister re Surge Workforce

On the 24th of December 2021, AEAV wrote to the Health Minister,...

Code Brown - AV Close Contacts to Stay Home

Code Brown will come into force at midday on Wednesday for all...

Spares Rest Break Grievance

The AEAV has pursued a grievance with Ambulance Victoria that paramedics working...

ESTA MOU

On Wednesday the 15th of December 2021, AEAV Secretary Brett Adie signed...

ESTA External Review - AEAV Submission

On the 15th of December 2021, AEAV made a submission to the...

No Surge Payment for NEPT

AEAV wrote to the Health Minister, Martin Foley to express nonemergency patient...

Spares Grievance

Ambulance Victoria has finally responded to a letter AEAV sent in October...

Ambulance Active

Edition 26 of the Australian Council of Ambulance Unions official journal Ambulance...

ESTA Choose Staff for Independent Review Consultation

PwC and Mr. Graham Ashton are holding online consultations with 90 ESTA...

Ambulance Victoria Recruitment Process Failing Staff

On the 26th of November 2021, AEAV wrote to Ambulance Victoria CEO,...

Unreasonable Expectations in the ALS TM Exam

This week the union has heard from a number of distressed members...

Victorian Budget Proposal

Ambulance Employees Australia – Victoria (AEAV) and the United Workers Union (UWU)...

Sorry Not Enough - Immediate Reform Needed in Ambulance Victoria

Ambulance Victoria owes its staff a better response than an apology and...

Report Highlights Need for Sweeping Ambulance Victoria Cultural Reforms

A damning report released today that has found bullying, discrimination, victimisation and...

Report Expected to Highlight Need for Fundamental Ambulance Victoria Cultural Reforms

A detailed report that is expected to find bullying, discrimination, victimisation and...

AV People Matter Survey & Data Manipulation

Ambulance Victoria survey results have laid bare the extent of the organisations...

Certificate of Professional Indemnity Insurance

AEAV Paramedic Members enjoy the comfort of professional indemnity insurance as required...

ESTA UCC Update - 18 Nov 2021

Delegates Roger Parker and Sharyne Doensen attended the ESTA Consultative Committee (UCC)...

AEAV Letter to Emergency Services Minister

On the 19th of November 2021, AEAV wrote to the Minister of...

Meeting with PwC

On the 18th of November 2021, AEAV Delegates Sharyne Doensen and Roger...

Response to ESTA Pandemic Proposal

ESTA has been chronically understaffed for many years, and could have coped...

Frontline Health Care Workers: We Salute You!

The last 18 months have stretched us all, in ways never conceived....

Report: Maintaining Service Capacity During COVID-19

OzSAGE, a panel of experts across public health, recently delivered a report...

Letter regarding NETCOMM only call takers

Today the AEAV wrote to the Emergency Telecommunications Authority (ESTA) regarding its...