Allied health professionals whose industrial action was called off said they had been frustrated by delays in talks for a renewed collective agreement, that were stalled twice by the 2019 political crisis and the COVID- 19 pandemic. Talks for the updating of their 2013 collective agreement had been ongoing since 2017, but months of negotiations had led nowhere.
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