On Tuesday the district health boards (DHBs) that are not willing to raise the payments for medical radiation technologists (MRTs), who are again calling for strikes, debated the issue without any significant outcome.

After five pay offers on side of the DHBs of 1% last April and later in October even 2%, the Apex Union that represents the radiographers is accused of having utopian demands on payment raises that would represent 50% more than the maximum of what the DHBs could spend.

Karen Roach, a spokesperson of the DHBs, articulates: "Our offer of 20 August is available for acceptance until 5pm on Tuesday 19 October; at that point we will presume that APEX members would prefer to take strike action rather than settle the agreement, so the offer will be withdrawn”.

The DHBs further expresses that the financial importance should lie on providing qualitative health care to citizens instead of satisfying exaggerated demands of the radiographer labor union.

The radiation employees who have tasks like conducting X-ray scans with patients stick to their demands by underlining a further raise of pay also for extra work and further education on weekends and the equal payments for sonographers as essential.