Sophie Cotton
Our wages are still not keeping up with inflation. Our latest pay rise hasn’t met inflation over the last year with the RBA June update putting inflation at 3.8% over the past year, while we received a 3.75% pay rise last month.
Sydney rents have increase 8.1% over the last year. Rents and medical expenses are both up 2% over the last quarter alone!
Since our last pay rise in August, staff wages have gone backwards in real terms.
It would have been much worse without the NTEU campaign.
Management’s original offer was for just 3.25%.
It was union members who got it to 3.25% in the first place and who took further strike action to move it to 3.75%.
If you’re not already a member of the NTEU, you should join now. It was union members who sacrificed for this win, while all members benefited from our action.
And if any of us want to see our wages moving forwards not backwards, we need more membership and more activity now in preparation for our 2026 bargaining.
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