Security officers have blocked MPs’ staff from campaigning for improved pay inside Parliament House, amid growing unrest in minister’s offices and the threat of a proposed enterprise bargaining deal being rejected.
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While the federal government attacks unions it is revealed that Turnbull’s Chief of Staff is paid over $600,000 per year – more than the PM himself, with the Government getting around its own 2% wages cap. Meanwhile, as USU General Secretary Graeme Kelly points out, staff members in electorate offices across the country who have gone without a pay rise for two years have started voting on a new enterprise agreement that limits annual wage increases to 2 per cent. The union is urging a NO vote.
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The number of federal government ministerial advisers has ballooned 65 per cent since last year, prompting union claims that the Coalition is trying to get around its own 2 per cent cap on public-sector wage rises.
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Following 13 months of campaigning, on Wednesday 4 December NSW Local Government Minister Ron...
The United Services Union (USU) has filed proceedings in the New South Wales Industrial Relations...
The CEO of a NSW council covering a large portion of the state’s south coast has resigned as...
