Premier Dominic Perrottet argues increase is fair but unions say ‘angry’ members have voted to go ahead with industrial action
NSW employee relations minister, Damien Tudehope, urged union bosses to halt planned industrial action.
But unions lashed the government over the announcement and the Public Service Association on Monday night voted to proceed with a planned action on Wednesday. “The Perrottet government needs to have a rethink on this because our members are certainly not going to lay down and make this decision lightly.”Secretary of Unions NSW, Mark Morey, said it was a “short-term fix to a long-term economic crisis” while Teachers Federation NSW president Angelo Gavrielatos said the move “adds insult to injury” and represented a pay cut in real terms amid high inflation.
After the announcements on Monday, report author Griffith University’s emeritus professor of industrial relations David Peetz told the Guardian workers would still be worse off. Opposition leader Chris Minns questioned how the government planned to attract more than 7,500 of those doctors, nurses and allied health professionals the government wants to hire in the next year.
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