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| Subject: Parasites cause chaos & 'anarchy': Civil disobedience breaks out in OZschwitz government's largest department Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:13 pm | |
| Public servants at the government's largest department plan to flout office dress codes and ignore their bosses' emails and phone calls as well as taking traditional strike action over a bitter pay dispute.
Bosses at the Department of Human Services branded union rhetoric "outrageous" on Thursday after the CPSU lodged its application for protected action at the Fair Work Commission, alleging the department had walked away from wage talks five weeks ago.
The campaign of industrial disobedience might also include "re-queuing or transferring customers" or defying scheduled break times, as well as disrupting $150 billion in Centrelink payments and $29 billion the department pays out through Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
The commission will hear arguments from both sides of the dispute in Sydney on Friday afternoon but department spokesman Hank Jongen reacted angrily on Thursday, saying he was outraged by the union's claims of the department walking away from talks.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/civil-disobedience-at-centrelink-medicare-20141009-113fs3.html#ixzz3FhEhdqsj |
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