The Health Services Union says it will withhold hundreds of thousands of dollars in election funding and the campaigning resources of tens of thousands of members if Labor's stance on aged care wages isn't strong enough agedcare HSU auselection ausp...
The HSU has lodged a case with the Fair Work Commission to increase the wages of aged care workers by 25 per cent.
“I need something to take to my membership to say that, if elected, Labor will support the outcome of the work value case and be able to fund it,” Mr Hayes says.The national president of the Health Services Union has warned he will withhold hundreds of thousands of dollars in election funding and the campaigning resources of tens of thousands of members unless he is satisfied by the strength of Labor’s stance on aged care wages.
“My reputation’s out there, I’m not a fair-weather friend ... we’re not wedded to just blindly following people, we will call it for what it is. This is a decent, moral, humane issue that will need to be addressed.” Prime Minister Scott Morrison has declined to endorse a pay rise in the wage case, saying the matter was up to the workplace umpire.Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has promised to make a submission to Fair Work supporting a pay rise if it wins government but has not committed to a specific amount.
“I need something to take to my membership to say that, if elected, Labor will support the outcome of the work value case and be able to fund it,” he said. “Gerard’s correct, we’re still waiting on the formal commitment, and we wait with anticipation,” Mr Williams said, adding the union wanted the opposition to go further than just submitting a statement endorsing the wage case in the Fair Work Commission.
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