Spotless and PSIS not giving employers a good name
Occasionally employers get up to some very strange things.
First we have Spotless Cleaning company which last year had to be compelled to accept a nationwide deal that everyone else in the health sector had signed up to, to raise the living wages of cleaners and cooks in our public hospitals. Nine months after that dispute it is back saying it has changed its mind and is not going to increase its workers pay after all. So 800 hospital workers from around the country who are on or close to the minimum wage have been back on strike again for pay rise they have already been promised.
Then we have little PSIS. At the moment PSIS workers are paid significantly less than workers in doing the same or similar jobs in big foreign-owned banks. Union member workers and the bank are currently in pay negotiations and one of the things PSIS is seeking is a claim that all future pay increases in PSIS be limited to the level of inflation only. This means PSIS staff could never negotiate wages that are in real terms higher than their current rates of pay. The workers and their union have launched an online petition which basically just seeks the right to be allowed to ask for a higher than inflation pay rise.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
“Then we have little PSIS. At the moment PSIS workers are paid significantly less than workers in doing the same or similar jobs in big foreign-owned banks.”
PSIS is not a bank, its a credit union, and thus isn’t accorded the same priviliges that trading banks are, which is why it can’t afford to pay the same rate that the foreign owned banks do.