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The Commonwealth’s biggest agency Services Australia is set to strike for 24 hours, beginning what is expected to be a wave of industrial action by public servants in protest against theThe Community and Public Sector Union notified the agency on Thursday that members at the 32,000-strong workforce would stop work on Monday, October 9, after rejecting its “meagre” 0.7 per cent increase on its first offer of 10.5 per cent over three years.
While there is broad support for the government’s conditions package, a union poll of 15,000 members this week showed a slim margin of 51.9 per cent backed the pay offer. CPSU national secretary Melissa Donnelly said that the union had rejected the offer because “we can, and we should be aiming higher than 50 per cent, plus one”.
“In an environment where every APS worker is feeling extreme cost-of-living pressures, the current pay offer doesn’t cut it,” she said.
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