The Australian public service union has rejected the federal government’s pay rise offer, labelling it as “not good enough!”
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) voted overwhelmingly to reject the offer, with 86 percent of the 15,000 members who voted in the ballot choosing to turn down the government’s first offer.
They had called for a 20 percent pay rise over the next three years, with public servants receiving a nine percent pay rise during the first year, followed by a six percent in the second and five percent in the third.
CPSU national secretary Melissa Donnelly in a media statement obtained by The Epoch Times, said the move to invoke protected action was not taken lightly….