The Sydney Morning Herald reports<\/a> the two unions representing staff \u2013 the MEAA and CPSU \u2013 have both notified the ABC of staff intentions to walk off the job next Wednesday for 24 hours as they push for a better pay offer.<\/p>\n\u201cSet up an out of office reply on your work email letting everyone know you\u2019re participating in protected industrial action,\u201d MEAA has suggested staff should enact next Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresenters are encouraged to speak on air during your segment to tell audiences why you won\u2019t be here tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then on the potential strike day, Wednesday March 25, \u201cGo into your local bureau before 10:30am AEDT so we can all down tools and walk out together at 11:00am AEDT \u2013 we\u2019ll send you details about the logistics of your local action soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
But will it come to that?<\/p>\n
The previous offer failed by only a narrow margin when employees voted down a pay deal that would have boosted salaries by 10 per cent over three years. The unions have demanded 5.5 per cent pay rises for each of the three years, as well as much higher progression up pay bands.<\/p>\n
MD Hugh Marks has offered annual pay rises of 3.5 per cent, 3.25 per cent and 3.25 per cent over the three years, pay progression up to band six, 16 weeks of parental leave for supporting partners and increased sick and compassionate leave. It also comes with a $1000 \u2018sweetener. to each staffer.<\/p>\n
Voting on ABC\u2019s latest offer is open until Sunday at 2pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two unions are poised to walk off the job at ABC for 24 hours unless a vote can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-552733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}