A dozen Shoalhaven union members gathered outside of South Coast MP Shelley Hancock's office on Monday, November 16 to protest the NSW Government's freeze to public sector wages.
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It comes after the NSW Government announced in October it would cut wage growth of all public sector workers to 0.3 per cent for the next 12 months.
Following this, the state cabinet decided in November to cap public sector wage growth to 1.5 per cent for the next three financial years.
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Unions Shoalhaven secretary Pat David said members gathered on Monday to show disgust at the wage freeze.
"Especially all the people who have supported our community since late last year, up to now - helping us stay healthy during the COVID, bushfires and flood," she said.
"I don't understand why a government would punish its workers the way it is doing and at the same time their budget blowouts are costing so much money.
"Are they robbing peter to pay paul?"
She called on the South Coast MP to come out and support the wages of public servants.
"Support your local community, it's not about doing things to be seen to be doing things.
"Why not come out and support the public servants who have come out and supported your government during the pandemic and other tragedies that have hit the South coast."
Two weeks ago the NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet defended the government's decision to cap wages at 1.5 per cent saying it would allow the government to employ as many public servants as possible.
"I think if you look at our wages policy here in NSW, compared to anywhere else in the country, it's completely fair and reasonable and very generous in the circumstances," he said.
Public Service Association official and regional organiser Shane Elliot believe the government was trying to wedge public servants wages against other peoples misfortune.
"The very workers they are attacking are the very people required to provide those services to those who were flood effected, fire effected," he said.
"They are providing services to people who are unemployed because of the pandemic."