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June 22nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Video: Public sector cuts revealed
(7pm TV News VIC)
The public sector union says the Victorian Government is not being open and transparent in its plan to slash 3,600 jobs in the public service.
The Goverment had already flagged its plans to slash jobs in the public service and yesterday it released the details on which departments the job cuts would be coming from.
Some of the hardest hit departments include the Department of Justice and Vic Roads, which are each losing at least 450 positions.
Another 400 jobs will go from the Education Department as well as the Department of Sustainability and Environment.
The CPSU has questioned the Government’s timing of releasing the details, just before 5.00pm on a Friday afternoon.
“Their view is that they will simply drop an announcement such as this on a Friday night, in the middle of winter and expect to be simply seen as them being open,” the union’s Karen Batt said.
“They have been directed by Fair Work to provide this information. They’ve tried to simply do it by making a statement to the media, late on a Friday night and I don’t think it’s acceptable.”
Ms Batt says the union has spent six months trying to get details.
“What we have in this statement is their attempt to pretend that they’re being open and transparent, they’re not,” she said.
“The Government has not identified where these jobs are, what programs are going, where these people live.”
She says the union will be seeking more information at Fair Work Australia next week.
The Government says it has already reduced the public service by 910 positions, through attrition and by not renewing contracts.
The Government has applied to the Tax Office to offer voluntary redundancies to achieve the remaining 2,600 job cuts.
Premier Ted Baillieu says frontline services will not be affected.
The job cuts will be phased in over two years.
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