Some 400 union workers will strike for 24 hours on Friday at electricity giant Transgrid after the company allegedly rejected a “compromise” offer from the Electrical Trades Union last week.
Hundreds of workers will strike for 24 hours in a long-running pay dispute with an electricity giant after the company allegedly rejected a new offer from the union.
But last week, the union said it tabled a “compromise” offer for a 6.5 per cent increase each year for three years plus a 0.5 per cent superannuation increase in years two and three. “Transgrid’s competitive wage and superannuation offer is 14 per cent over three years, with a 5 per cent wage increase in the first year, a 4 per cent wage plus 0.5 per cent superannuation increase in the second year and a further 4 per cent wage plus a further 0.5 per cent superannuation increase in the third year as part of an overall package, compared to the December Transgrid 13 per cent wages and superannuation offer,” she said.
ETU NSW and ACT Secretary Allen Hicks said the company was behaving in a “pig-headed” manner and claimed its alleged recalcitrance put Australia’s net zero ambitions at risk. “Yet in the midst of a national energy transition and skills shortage, Transgrid’s stubborn refusal to lift wages threatens to further gut the essential workforce and undermine the transition to net zero.In January, the union alleges 83 per cent of eligible Transgrid employees rejected the company’s proposed enterprise bargaining agreement.The Project EnergyConnect route map. Picture: Supplied“Resources will be available to respond to life-threatening emergencies,” the union said.
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