The NSW Government continues to impose an unfair and unjust 2.5 per cent wages cap to Public Sector workers, despite our admirable work providing our state with critical security and support during the catastrophic bushfires, a global pandemic and the worst floods in recorded history.
This unfair wages policy means your wages will not keep up with the rising cost of living, giving you an effective pay cut every year. This policy needs to go.
All PSA/CPSU NSW members, including those not employed in the Public Sector, need to be aware of this, as the policy affects wage increases for the rest of the state. The wages policy drags down pay rises in other sectors, such as universities, disability services and other non-government employers. As a union, we support each other.
We surveyed members (see bulletin HERE) and found 82 per cent of them support taking industrial action to force the Government to overturn its wages policy.
On March 30, a meeting of the PSA/CPSU NSW Central Council supported the following motion of the union’s Executive:
This meeting of the Central Council endorses the PSA’s wage claim and calls on the NSW Government to provide all PSA members with a minimum wage increase of 3.6 per cent, exclusive of any increase to superannuation, and to provide for the payment of superannuation on the unpaid portion of the first 12 months of parental leave for our members.
This meeting of Central Council demands the repeal of Section 146C of the NSW Industrial Relations Act and the removal of all unfair workplace laws, including in relation to workers’ compensation.
If the NSW Government continues to deny PSA members fair and reasonable wage increases and access to fair and reasonable workplace laws, this meeting endorses statewide industrial action. This to be determined by PSA Departmental, Vocational, Advisory and Workplace Committees and endorsed and coordinated by the PSA Executive and Central Council.
The Central Council’s motion was endorsed at a meeting of 293 Delegates today.
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There is power in a union. Together we can work overturn the State Government’s unfair and unjust wages policy.
