Australia community workers awarded delayed “equal pay” rise

wsws.org Wednesday 8th February, 2012

The trade union movement has hailed as "historic" a decision last week by the Labor government's Fair Work Australia (FWA) tribunal to award community workers pay rises of 19-41 percent, even though the increases will be staggered over nearly nine years. The FWA judges' ruling, by a majority of 4 to 1, affects 150,000 social and community sector (S...

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