{"id":202835,"date":"2025-12-26T14:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202835\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:23:14","slug":"paid-firefighters-call-off-planned-boxing-day-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202835\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid firefighters call off planned Boxing Day strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4O7KZRR_image_crop_42031\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"A firefighter checking the pressures of the appliance, at 242 Adelaide Road, Newtown.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nVolunteer firefighters will respond to 111 calls during the strike hour.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Alexander Robertson\n<\/p>\n<p>The Professional Firefighters&#8217; Union has decided to stop Boxing Day&#8217;s one-hour strike that was meant to begin at midday.<\/p>\n<p>It acknowledged that it was Boxing Day, and for those not rostered to work, it was an important opportunity to be with wh\u0101nau.<\/p>\n<p>The withdrawal meant volunteers, who would have felt obligated to respond during the strike, could relax.<\/p>\n<p>Collective bargaining between Fire and Emergency and the Professional Firefighters&#8217; Union broke down, and the Employment Relations Authority this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/579935\/fenz-applies-for-facilitation-to-end-pay-dispute-with-firefighters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent them into facilitation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The union would instead strike for one hour on 2 and 9 January.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency said it was pleased the strike by firefighters did not go ahead and that people&#8217;s safety was not compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, firefighters have put out a grass fire on the bank of the Waimakariri River near Swannanoa, north of Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported just after 11pm on Thursday and when firefighters arrived, they found a blaze of about 80 by 10 metres.<\/p>\n<p>It took three hours and three tankers to extinguish the grass fire, which was fanned by high winds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteer firefighters will respond to 111 calls during the strike hour. Photo: RNZ \/ Alexander Robertson The Professional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-202835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}