Facebook posts showing Public Employment Minister Jo Hersey attending union protest rallies against the previous Labor government’s public service pay freeze have contradicted her claims the union failed to fight against the 2022 pay freeze, but the Minister is now criticising unions for donating to Labor’s 2024 election campaign, which all comes amid a bitter battle over a new contract for public servants.

Ms Hersey accused the CPSU of not fighting the pay freeze in a press release last Friday, when she announced the Commissioner for Public Employment would make an application to the Fair Work Commission to deal with the ongoing Northern Territory Public Service enterprise agreement bargaining dispute.

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