Ambulance Employees Association

The Ambulance Employees Association (AEA) represents all ambulance employees within South Australia. The AEA is a standalone union with no political affiliations, working solely for its members to provide professional representation to improve wages and working conditions, further career prospects and provide assistance for all industrial and work related legal matters.   ► Full list of benefits click here….

The AEA provides on behalf of all its members;

• ► Industrial and Work Related Legal Representation, including workers’ compensation, disciplinary and professional matters
• ► Professional Indemnity Insurance coverage
• ► Collective Bargaining for your rights and conditions

“It’s a very sad day when the overcrowded hospital crisis results in a patient passing away waiting in the queue of ambulances ramped at the FMC. Yesterday an elderly patient ramped at Flinders Medical Centre passed away after being on the ramp over an hour.

Old folk are the biggest single cohort of patients left waiting for an ambulance and left waiting on the ramp. This poor soul never made it inside the ED – her and her family should not have had to go through this – it is a denial of basic human rights.

Make no mistake, ramping is at all time high: this is from data supplied to the union by SA Ambulance. Data is one thing, human suffering another – and ramping means that all South Australians are being denied timely access to ambulance care and ED care, but more so older South Aussies.

This has to stop, the public should be contacting their local MP, especially Government MPs, and demand action before more lives are lost.”

-Phil Palmer
Secretary, Ambulance Employees Association – 19/09/2019