Public servants to ramp up pay cuts protest

02/03/2010 - 07:34:18
Public servants are to escalate their protest against pay cuts after low-paid civil servants last night voted in favour of strike action.

The Civil and Public Services Union ballot was carried by an 83% majority on a turnout of 76%.

Up to now, CPSU members were participating in a work to rule, without widespread disruption or inconvenience to the public.

However CPSU general secretary Blair Horan says that action will now escalate unless the government reconsiders the cuts.

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