Public servants have voted to accept the Finocchiaro CLP Government’s latest pay offer, ending drawn out negotiations over the 2025-2029 enterprise bargaining agreement.
The declaration of results document shows that 14,172 public servants were eligible to vote. Some 7,972 voted. Of those, 4,186 voted for and 3,786 voted against the latest offer.
What do Territorans Get For This Pay Increase, Given that:
Education Department.
-Worst NAPLAN test results (if they are even published) by any Jurisdiction in Australia
-Worst School Attendance rates by any Jurisdiction in Australia
Health Department.
-No Maternity ward at Health!
-3 Months Wait for an Oncologist, which got cancelled on the day!
-3 Months Wait for a Continence Nurse.
-The hospital is so close to capacity every day that they occasionally call a Code Yellow.
-Aged Care/Disability Assessments are (a)a nightmare (b) very subjective,
2 different Disability assessors come up with wildly different findings.
Best Attorney General and Dept of Justice
-Courts are backed up like a toilet pipe affecting all lawyers in the NT
-Excellent court decisions such as a Builder getting 400,000+500,000 in fines for manslaughter and one celebrity who covered up evidence for manslaughter gets a slap on the wrist!
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-The vital Acacia Health system, which has a direct effect on all Terriorians, is a mess despite
being rolled out in much larger hospitals.
-The vital SerPro Police system, which has a direct effect on crime stats and crime management,
is a mess!
-Those systems have been implemented elsewhere successfully, minus one input: NT Public Servants.
Questions:
(a) What are the 28000 Public Servants, the army of uncounted Labour hire staff and contractors,
actually doing all day? What are their tangible outputs?
(b) Are NT Public Servants now paid 30% plus the extra 3% paid above what their private industry
counterparts earn?
(c) How many Public Servants have been fired for the mishandling of millions of dollars for the Acacia and SerPro budget blowouts? Is the answer: None?
(d) Is the Golden Handshake Superannuation scheme for old school Public Servants
included in the $15 billion Government debt? If not, does that make the NT Government Debt $18 billion?
I congratulate the CPSU’s David Villegas excellence
in negotiating to get the NT CLP Government and the NT OCPE
to back down from eroding and watering down
the job security provisions in the enterprise agreement for non executive
Northern Territory Public Servants.