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Speaker 1: Now we know that yesterday was Labor Day and saw

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Speaker 1: many march the streets for workers right, but many many

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Speaker 1: were also marching the streets for fairer pay and conditions.

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Speaker 1: We know that Darwin prison offices and fireies walked out

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Speaker 1: of work for industrial action yesterday morning and they joined

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Speaker 1: hundreds of protesters for the annual Union and well May

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Speaker 1: Day March. Now joining me on the line to tell

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Speaker 1: us a little bit more is the United Branch Into

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Speaker 1: Branch Secretary Erina Early. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Katie. How are you not too bad?

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Speaker 3: Erina?

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Speaker 1: How was that turnout? Firstly for yesterday's Mayday March?

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Speaker 2: It was absolutely amazing. It was such a great day.

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Speaker 1: Plenty of people there was it in the hundreds.

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Speaker 2: Oh, well over one hundreds. United Workers Union had over

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Speaker 2: two hundred. Yeah, we JOC had about nearly one thousand

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Speaker 2: workers marching yesterday.

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Speaker 1: And Erina, was it all about you know, about what

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Speaker 1: May Day is usually about, you know, workers rights? Or

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Speaker 1: was it more about some of the can concerns that

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Speaker 1: our workers in the territory have got with this PayPhrase?

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Speaker 3: It was a combination of both May Days about celebration

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Speaker 3: and also an opportunity for workers to send messages to government,

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Speaker 3: to territory and to other groups as well.

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Speaker 2: So you did see yesterday it was used as an

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Speaker 2: opportunity for the Correctional officer as part of their protected action.

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Speaker 2: They used it to have a twelve hour work stoppage

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Speaker 2: and so they could attend the May Day march and.

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Speaker 1: Eron I they had that work stoppage. Our correctional officers

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Speaker 1: also fireries as I understand it, what drives them to

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Speaker 1: take that strike action.

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Speaker 2: So correction Office and both Fiery are not happy with

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Speaker 2: the four year wage increase at all, four year wage free. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: they're not happy with that. They won't accept it. They're

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Speaker 2: both very highly unionized work forces and they won't rollover

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Speaker 2: and will be persuaded by the OCPE with dangling buckets

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Speaker 2: of cash.

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Speaker 1: And they've got some serious concerns right now as well,

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Speaker 1: don't they when it comes to their staffing levels and

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Speaker 1: their safety.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, corrections are at crisis level. As you know, we

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Speaker 2: had the fires and in Alice Springs with Rights and

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Speaker 2: Alice Springs and the fires in Darwin. Still these haven't

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Speaker 2: been sorted. There's still no right shields for officers, there's

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Speaker 2: still no body armor. The damage is still visible, so

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Speaker 2: the officers have to walk past this every day. So

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Speaker 2: it's a reminder to them that the government doesn't care erin.

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Speaker 1: What is going to happen in this space. I mean,

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Speaker 1: can we expect further industrial action from our correction staff

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Speaker 1: given the fact that they feel as though they are

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Speaker 1: very unsafe on the job.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. This Thursday, Alice Springs are walking off the twelve

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Speaker 2: hours as well, and then after our springs this week

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Speaker 2: we're going to regroup with our delegates and members because

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Speaker 2: we are talking about rolling walk off right just.

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Speaker 1: With corrections or is that going to be in other

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Speaker 1: areas as well?

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Speaker 2: So you've got corrections. Our firefighters can't walk off the

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Speaker 2: job lock corrections because they're emergency services. So yesterday part

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Speaker 2: of their protected action was wearing uniforms. So we had

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Speaker 2: over seventy firefighters yesterday marching uniform because they're not happy

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Speaker 2: about the four year wage freeze either. And the fire

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Speaker 2: services in crisis too, whether aging appliances things like that,

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Speaker 2: the lack of training, etc. The possibility of volunteers starting

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Speaker 2: the remote stations, et cetera. There's a lot of that

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Speaker 2: to implode within the fire service. You see that coming

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Speaker 2: in the next couple of weeks, but also two Kateie,

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Speaker 2: you've got Nilla Dulber Health Services. They walked out last week,

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Speaker 2: took to the street from Darwin because they weren't happy

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Speaker 2: with their enterprise agreement and the City of Darwin our

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Speaker 2: depot workers. Their protected action ballot were successful last week,

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Speaker 2: so we'll be meeting with members tomorrow and discuss which

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Speaker 2: actions they're going to be taking.

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Speaker 1: Well, it sounds as though there's going to be a

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Speaker 1: bit of industrial action around the place. Potentially. Erin are

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Speaker 1: keeping contact with us and let us know when, and

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Speaker 1: I know that you know, for a lot of these workers,

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Speaker 1: they don't actually want to disrupt things for Territorians, but

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Speaker 1: they're feeling as though it's their final option.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Katie, You've got a lot of upset workers. And

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Speaker 2: I think I've mentioned missed you before. If twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: two is really going to be a year of the

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Speaker 2: work of fighting back.

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Speaker 1: Well Erina early. We will talk to you again once

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Speaker 1: those meetings have happened, if that's all right, and find

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Speaker 1: out what's the next steps.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Cat, I'll be in touch with it very very soon.

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Speaker 1: Thank you you too, Thanks very much for your time

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Speaker 1: this morning,