Vic: Electoral staff vow to continue industrial action
MELBOURNE, Aug 29 AAP - Striking Victorian electoral staff have vowed to continue industrialaction if work conditions are not improved.
About 100 staff walked off the job today for 24 hours, leaving 88 predominantly LaborMPs without electoral staff.
Staff demands include overtime and allowance issues and better career path structures.
Community and Public Sector Union industrial officer Debbie Hill said the stoppagewas expected to severely disrupt operations at local members' electoral offices.
"Unless members (MPs) are going to staff the offices themselves, then people will findoffices closed today," she said.
"We've had enough and we felt like this was the only way to get them to take us seriously."
Ms Hill said the enterprise agreement for the electoral staff expired on June 30, buttheir employer, the Victorian Parliament, was yet to respond to a log of claims lodgedin April.
The union will meet with parliamentary services on Tuesday.
"If they can't take us seriously and negotiations are not meaningful or genuine, thenwe will embark on further industrial action," Ms Hill said.
AAP rb/ce/sjb/bwl
KEYWORD: ELECTORAL 2ND DAYLEAD
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