Community and Public Sector Union Secretary Karen Batt says the idea that the Victorian government wants to cut jobs in the public sector to save money ahead of the budget in May is “political suicide”.
“It’s the equivalent of political suicide in our view, you cannot have this sort of cut not have an impact on jobs and services across the state,” she told Sky News Australia.
“We’ve already got significant vacancies because of COVID-19 … we don’t have enough staff to fill the rosters, 550 vacancies in the Department of Education and yet they want to cut more and more”.
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