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Speaker 1: It's understood that the Northern Territory governments agreed to give

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Speaker 1: shift workers a pay rise following the completion of a

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Speaker 1: review now looked at the definitions of various shifts, hours

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Speaker 1: of work and associated salaries, shift work penalties and provisions

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Speaker 1: for notice of roster changes. The governments accepted the recommendations

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Speaker 1: of that review, recognizing the extra strain that shift workers

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Speaker 1: face across the public sector. Now joining me on the

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Speaker 1: line to shed some light on this is the CPSU's

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Speaker 1: into Regional Secretary David Velagis. Good morning to you, David.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. David.

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Speaker 1: How much of a pay rise will our shift workers receive?

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Speaker 2: So at this stage, it's been confirmed that all shift

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Speaker 2: workers on thirty eight hour arrangements will be receiving a

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Speaker 2: three point four percent pay rise and that'll be backdated

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Speaker 2: to the seventh of April twenty twenty two and paid

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Speaker 2: until the end of this agreement, and it will also

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Speaker 2: be reflected in super and so talk us.

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Speaker 1: Through why there was a push for this change, and

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Speaker 1: you know what, like I guess what it's going to

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Speaker 1: mean for those people out there listening who are shift workers.

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Speaker 2: So essentially this came about because our members have been

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Speaker 2: raising this in a number of bargaining rounds and it

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Speaker 2: was only in the last round of bargaining that the

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Speaker 2: government agreed to include a cause in the Enterprise agreement

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Speaker 2: to review shift working arrangements. And it was through that

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Speaker 2: review process that we found that thirty eight that the

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Speaker 2: two thousand shift workers on thirty eight hour arrangements, I

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Speaker 2: should say, yep, we're being underpaid. So at this stage,

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Speaker 2: this is going to be really really positive for workers

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Speaker 2: all across the front line. We're talking about workers in

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Speaker 2: our youth justice in Dondale Andella Springs, public housing safety offices,

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Speaker 2: transit safety officers, hospital workers, all of them are going

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Speaker 2: to benefit from this really big win.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so what kind of I mean, you've touched on

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Speaker 1: a few of them there, but what kind of public

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Speaker 1: servants are we talking about here, because I would imagine

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Speaker 1: when you're talking shift workers, a lot of them are

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Speaker 1: those that are sort of in frontline jobs.

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Speaker 2: Yes, correct, So those transit safety officers, for example, are

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Speaker 2: out there at our bus stops trying to keep our

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Speaker 2: community safe. You have youth justice officers across the territory

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Speaker 2: as well. You have the public housing safety officers who

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Speaker 2: are generally first responders in that space too, so we

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Speaker 2: have all these workers across the front line. The feedback

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Speaker 2: we've been receiving as a result of this win has

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Speaker 2: been really positive and people are just happy that this

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Speaker 2: matter has been finally resolved.

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Speaker 1: When's it going to come into effect? When are they

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Speaker 1: going to see that pay rise? All that you know,

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Speaker 1: shift pay rise? I should say.

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Speaker 2: So the ETA at the moment is in early January,

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Speaker 2: and we've been told that's because there's a number of

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Speaker 2: other enterprise agreements that need to be processed as well

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Speaker 2: through the Department of Corporate and Digital Development, So that's

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Speaker 2: what we're looking at at the moment.

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Speaker 1: So there are by the sounds of it, there could

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Speaker 1: potentially be a couple of other things that you're hoping

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Speaker 1: for in that review or No.

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Speaker 2: At this stage, we believe that the matter has been resolved.

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Speaker 2: The dispute that our union launched in July was in

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Speaker 2: relation to this back pay sound pay rise for the

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Speaker 2: shift workers. So from the industrial advice that we've received

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Speaker 2: is that this is the best possible outcome in the circumstances.

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Speaker 1: Well, that is good to hear, and like I say,

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Speaker 1: I know that there are a lot of shift workers

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Speaker 1: that listen to the show. Lots of people that listen

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Speaker 1: to the show that are those public service workers. So

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that they're going to be pleased to hear this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, have they been notified or do you sort

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Speaker 1: of write to all of them and let them know

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Speaker 1: exactly what it's going to mean for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've sent communications to our menbers this week, so

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Speaker 2: the government will be sending out further information, including frequently

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Speaker 2: asked questions, very very soon.

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Speaker 1: Well, David, it is good to speak with you this morning.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you having a chat with us, and no

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Speaker 1: doubt we'll talk to you again sometime soon.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,