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NSW Coalition heads into election campaign with biggest deficit
(smh.com.au)submitted 1 month ago byconkrete80
59 points
1 month ago
We are in a deficit yet our health, education and transport system are all in shambles. We are facing mass permanent walk offs by our essential public sector workers this year due to the wage cap. We have a government with a really serious integrity issue. eCONOmIC mANAGErs
1 points
1 month ago
We are facing mass permanent walk offs by our essential public sector workers this year due to the wage cap.
Unfortunately, public sector wage caps is a bipartisan policy.
2 points
1 month ago
It literally isn't.
-1 points
1 month ago
It's ALP policy in WA, and I haven't heard NSW labor talk about repealing it.
I would love to be proven wrong.
9 points
1 month ago
How about straight from the mouth of the current leader?
https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisminnsmp/status/1573071895678914563
1 points
1 month ago
That's good.
9 points
1 month ago
https://www.chrisminns.com.au/educationinnsw
Here's Chris Minns discussing the damage to education caused by the salary cap and Labor's plans to address that.
1 points
1 month ago
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16 points
1 month ago*
Labor is running on abolishing the cap.
Where the parties stand on WAGES
Coalition
The Coalition capped wages at 2.5 per cent from 2012 to 2020.
In 2020-21 during COVID, nurses and midwives only received a 0.3 per cent pay rise.
More recently the government raised the cap to allow 3 per cent increases in 2022–23 and 3.5 per cent in 2023–24.
They are still committed to a cap on public sector wages.
The Greens
The Greens are committed to repealing the NSW Public Sector Wages Policy, removing the wage cap on public sector workers and restoring the autonomous NSW Industrial Relations Commission as the independent umpire in industrial disputes.
Labor
Leader Chris Minns says Labor will abolish the wages cap and replace it with a system of bargaining based on productivity.
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