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July 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Up to 100 Victorian State Emergency Service (SES) workers will walk off the job for 24 hours on Friday over an ongoing pay dispute with the Victorian government.
The SES operations managers and officers will rally outside the organisation’s headquarters in Melbourne from 9am (AEST) in protest at negotiations which have dragged on for 18 months.
Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) assistant branch secretary Jim Walton said the employees – who train the organisation’s huge volunteer workforce – were paid at least $30,000 less than their counterparts at other emergency services, such as the Country Fire Authority.
“We’ve had instances of major incidents where the SES incident controller is being paid $45,000 less than the emergency staff they are supervising and this happens all the time,” he said.
Mr Walton said the government had increased its offer from a 2.5 per cent a year pay increase to an annual 3.5 per cent paid over three years.
But the union wants pay parity with the other organisations within three years – a 30 per cent increase.
The stoppage is an escalation of work bans that have been in place for four months, including communications, training of volunteers and participating in meetings with other emergency services.
Workers also held a 24-hour stoppage in May.
The government’s public sector wages policy is an annual 2.5 per cent increase and further increases are to be offset by productivity gains.
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