If no agreement is reached between Ambulance Service Organisation members and their States employers, the withdrawal will come into force on Saturday.
Leaders of the Service have warned that the service’s ability to answer emergency calls would be affected by the action.
Mick Pinel, the head of employee relations at the States Human Resources department, said that he believed the paramedics and ambulance technicians were breaking a no industrial action or impairment of service agreement signed in 1999 when the Association broke away from the Manual Workers Joint Council.
Grievance
Charlie Gouyet, the president of the Ambulance Service Association, said that his staff had intimated that they were not against going to arbitration, but would do so when they were ready and had prepared a case.
