Photo: SAM BAKER/Manawatu StandardPAY UP: Hospital worker Bruce Claire was one of 25 Spotless workers waving placards and picketing outside Palmerston North Hospital
In New Zealand, up to 800 cleaners and food workers in public hospitals walked off the job for 24 hours this morning in protest at employer Spotless Services' failure to honour a pay deal agreed with them last year.
The increase would bring their minimum pay rate to $14.25 an hour.
Service and Food Workers Union site representative Ken Archer said the pay increase hold up was unfair.
"The Government has given them [Spotless) the [extra] money for the lower paid workers, and they still haven't paid us. So we have to strike to get what we are owed. . .it's really disappointing it will cost us a day's pay to get what is ours, but what can you expect from an Australian- owned company?"
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1 comment:
oh the kiwis. they will always find excuses to blame the Aussies one way or the other. But guess what. They all end up in Aussie land eventually.
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