Disability support workers to picket and fundraise

1 April 2010
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Disability support workers to picket and fundraise for ‘common cents’

Members of the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota will bring an unusual twist to the latest round of their industrial action on Tuesday [6 April] in the latest round of their ongoing dispute with IHC.

National and regional IHC offices will face picket lines with a difference says SFWU spokesperson John Ryall.

“We are going to try and assist IHC management to respect their staff by running a fundraiser,” says John.

The SFWU is billing the pickets as ‘common cents’.

“For 6 months management have not seen any sense despite receiving additional public monies they persist in refusing to pass these on to the workforce,” says John Ryall.

“A wage freeze in the disability support sector is unacceptable, and our members see no alternative but to continue taking industrial action until this matter is resolved”, says John Ryall.

Union members will picket at 21 locations [see list below] asking for members of the public to contribute 10 cents so that IHC management see sense.

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