The Public Service Association has today slammed the NSW Government\u2019s plan to hit striking workers with draconian fines, with the union emphasising that shooting the messengers won\u2019t fix the state\u2019s many problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for Employee Relations Damien Tudehope today announced he would increase the maximum penalties for striking in response to the industrial unrest created by his government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Public Service Association of NSW General Secretary, Stewart Little, said the government had created the problem by mismanaging public services and grabbing power from the independent Industrial Relations Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The state government created this situation when they snatched power from the independent Industrial Relations Commission, which has successfully managed industrial issues for decades,” Mr Little said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This government has mismanaged and underfunded public services. It has sacked and mistreated frontline workers. It\u2019s spent a decade lighting a hundred separate bin fires across the state and now Damien Tudehope reckons he can bully frontline workers into staying silent about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Public sector workers have a deep sense of public duty and they don\u2019t strike lightly. They\u2019ll only take industrial action when a government has mismanaged things to the point of crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“If Damien Tudehope reckons he can shoot the messenger he\u2019s mistaken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“New South Wales is already one of only a few democracies on earth where workers get fined for exercising the human right to strike. The fact this government thinks it\u2019s now appropriate to tighten the screws on workers speaks volumes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Public Service Association has today slammed the NSW Government\u2019s plan to hit striking workers with draconian fines, with the union emphasising that shooting the messengers won\u2019t fix the state\u2019s many problems. Minister for Employee Relations Damien Tudehope today announced he would increase the maximum penalties for striking in response to the industrial unrest created … Continue reading “Fining and punishing striking workers won\u2019t fix NSW\u2019s problems\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17121,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120\/revisions\/17121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}