Unions heralded a “new dawn” for wage negotiations after Labor’s resounding victory in NSW, prompting a key credit rating agency to warn of knock-on effects for other states, especially Victoria.
as a key inhibitor to wage growth – and any implications for wages and financial ratings, including for Victoria’s 1.5 per cent wage cap.
“The result of the NSW state election reinforces that lifting wages can and must be a government priority. Some unions pointed to the Queensland government’s 7 per cent pay boost to teachers and nurses last year – made up of a 4 per cent wage rise with a 3 per cent-equivalent cash bonus – as a way forward.Independent Education Union NSW/ACT secretary Mark Northam – now in negotiations with 10 Catholic dioceses in the independent school sector – said the incoming scrapping of the NSW cent wage cap marked a “dramatic shift”.
“We will be going to members shortly [on the wage claim] and we will await to see what the government comes up with,” Mr Whaites said. Mr Mookhey said he had been buoyed to hear secretaries’ enthusiasm to revive wage talks. He said the election had been fought and won on a pledge to scrap the wage cap and that Labor now had a mandate to start negotiations.
NSW Premier-elect Chris Minns accepts a gift of a framed front page of ‘The Sun-Herald’ newspaper from Ben Fordham in the 2GB office in Sydney.Unlike the other states, the Victorian government has not had to deal with the issue of rising inflation, having negotiated almost all its agreements by the end of 2021.
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