It is quite odd. Also odd that they would agree to so much while still negotiating on so many other fronts. Would have made more sense for government to agree to all at the same time, benchmarked against each other.
Comment on Hundreds of elective surgeries cancelled as 50,000 nurses and midwives walk off job in NSW
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Police offered 39% but the much more over-worked and under-paid nurses aren’t even going to be given 15%? What an absolute fucking farce.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 days ago
eureka@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Someone in /r/australia noticed that contradiction too:
Mr Park said it would be impossible to “essentially erode the gap in wages in a single year” because it would cost the state several hundred million dollars.
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Their frustrations were heightened when on Monday NSW Police officers were offered an historic pay increase of up to 39 per cent over the next four years, at a cost of almost $700 million.
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shirro@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Massive difference in education/qualification between average police and nurses. You need a high school certificate to become a cop and at minimum a diploma for enrolled nurse or an undergraduate degree to start on a career as an RN and with specialization the skies the limit. All that time and expense studying while a police officer can be earning good money.
Pay for nurses and to some extent teachers has a basis in historical sexism. Even as these occupations became increasingly professional and demanded much higher levels of education they retained the stigma of being womens jobs. Its a joke.