Brussels attacks prompt postponement of Australian strikes
BTN News
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Airport strikes by staff from Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) over the Easter long weekend have been postponed.
Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull had appealed to the Department’s union members not to strike in the wake of the terror attacks in Brussels, which began in an airport.
Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) national secretary Nadine Flood said the 24-hour strikes, which were due to begin Thursday, had been postponed.
“We have agreed to postpone these strikes in good faith and conscious of the understandable concern of travellers in the wake of the Brussels attacks. Our members would never take industrial action that compromises Australia’s national security at this time or at any time.”
The postponed strikes are in response to the slow process to get public sector enterprise bargaining agreements signed. The row over pay and conditions remains intense and the Union has estimated that around 80 per cent of Commonwealth public servants or 130,000 people are still without an agreement after almost two years.
Brussels attacks prompt postponement of Australian strikes
BTN News
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Airport strikes by staff from Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) over the Easter long weekend have been postponed.
Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull had appealed to the Department’s union members not to strike in the wake of the terror attacks in Brussels, which began in an airport.
Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) national secretary Nadine Flood said the 24-hour strikes, which were due to begin Thursday, had been postponed.
“We have agreed to postpone these strikes in good faith and conscious of the understandable concern of travellers in the wake of the Brussels attacks. Our members would never take industrial action that compromises Australia’s national security at this time or at any time.”
The postponed strikes are in response to the slow process to get public sector enterprise bargaining agreements signed. The row over pay and conditions remains intense and the Union has estimated that around 80 per cent of Commonwealth public servants or 130,000 people are still without an agreement after almost two years.
