WA Police Pay Dispute

Very discouraging to see a group that has limited ability to engage in industrial action be left hanging as WA Police are. Made even more uncomfortable for those of us watching is the WAPolice have a routinely high hazard job. As far as the pay dispute goes they're limited to what they can do legitimately due to public safety.

Then it gets even more weird and frankly wrong.
THE party of the worker WALabor is the main roadblock to a fair industrial agreement.
If Philip Collier & Albert Hawke were alive today they'd be as wild as hell & utterly unimpressed.
And yes I have said it before, they may even consider joining up with the NationalsWA on this issue because goodness knows they're the only alternative to the Labor/Liberal Duopoly.

I am glad the Natonals have sided up & spoke at a WAPolice rally on the issue. Emergency Services  need to know there's a political voice for them whether they vote for them or not. There needs to be a political party who stands for first responders even if there's no votes in it. It should be the case because its ethically right & then put in a full stop.
My personal view is the WAPolice should get the promised 1.5% pay rise but even at the risk of putting a dent in the budget they should get so much more. There should have been one party that has sorted out a proper full coverage Workers Comp for Police.

But wait there's more. They should have full family health insurance paid for by the government, by us. When I say full, I mean full medical dental & ancillaries. It should be something our professional first responders from Police, Fire Ambos should never ever have to worry about.
They go into the danger zones, with heightened training, risk assessment skills, protective gear because they're high risk so it only stands to reason as simple logic they get the full suite of coverage from us.

Yes, I'd push it further. I think all Police, Ambos & Fire fighters should, along with top shelf counselling services also have family membership to the Paraplegic Benefits Fund in the event of serious spinal injury either at work or whilst off duty.

Why? Because there is absolutely no viable reason why not.

Some folk claim the Emergency Services get paid handsomely but I don't. I think for what they do its close to reasonable, but not yet reasonable. I think its highly unreasonable they don't get full family medical insurance, full family dental insurance, full worker's compensation coverage and full family PBF membership. The peace of mind it would generate, the genuine good will it would offer is deserved and baseline bare minimum if we are to protect those who protect us.

I think Emergency Services & the Teaching profession should be in a perfect world, the hardest professions to get into but the most highly paid and recompensed. THAT is proper future proofing for the state of WA.

In the meantime, whilst we're a long way from that grand ideal I have to dip my hat to the NationalsWA for taking more of an interest in the WAPolice pay dispute.

If I was to use a hashtag #ProtectThoseWhoProtectUs.

It makes sense and its fair. I'm deeply concerned that both halves of the Labor/Liberal Duopoly don't currently have those as core attributes to their political culture.

Mr McGowan Mr Wyatt...did your parents not teach you to never lie to the Police?