Workers in health, social and welfare services run by the churches have been involved in a week of action to get a new collective agreement. Ver.di is calling for a new collective agreement that would bring pay rates in line with the main public sector agreement, after four years during which worker s in the sector have had no pay increase. It argues that the church employers’ association has been hiding behind the special role of the church to maintain poor conditions of employment. The week of action involved over 250 workers in eight different church operations involved in elder care, training, youth work and disabled care.
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