Police and Fire Unions mobilising around OFarrell's attack on public service workers
DARIN SULLIVAN
President
FBEU
Support Our Public Services !
The NSW Government has introduced Legislation into the NSW Parliament that will threaten the pay and conditions of our Police, Nurses, Firefighters, Teachers, Paramedics and all other NSW public sector workers.
If the new laws are passed then the pay and conditions of these workers who deliver these vital services to our community will be in the hands of politicians and not the independent umpire, the NSW Industrial Relations Commission, that has operated for more than one hundred years in NSW.
What Will The New Law Mean for Emergency Service Workers?
v The NSW Government will be able to implement as law, any policy that it creates on
conditions of employment of public sector employees.
v Public sector workers who provide essential services will not get a pay rise of more than 2.5% a year unless they trade off “employee related cost savings and reforms”.
v “Employee related cost savings” means having one rather than two police officers in patrol car, four rather than five nurses in an operating theatre, three rather than four weeks holiday.
The Bill Seeks To Force A Court To Implement Government Policy As Law.
v The New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) will become a Commission with no ability to make independent decisions on public sector wages or conditions. It will be forced to implement Government policies. The new law undermines the separation of power and independence between the Government and the Commission.
v The new Bill will remove the role of the Industrial Court of NSW to provide a right of review of unfair contracts forced on public sector employees.
v The Government has removed the only independent umpire dealing with wages.
The Bill Applies Retrospectively
v The Bill seeks to retrospectively regulate all public sector proceedings currently before the IRC including pay claims for police officers, child protection workers, prison officers, health service workers and teachers.
What You Can Do:
1. Urgently Contact your local State MP and demand that this Bill be opposed and withdrawn
2. Click on to www.betterstate.org.au/stop_ofarrells_law
Authorised: Arthur Rorris, Secretary, South Coast Labour Council, 1 Lowden Sq Wollongong 2500.
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