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Speaker 1: As I said, public servants are taking industrial action today.

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Speaker 1: They're taking to the streets to protest the wage offer

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Speaker 1: of two percent. Erina Early, the Secretary of Unions MT,

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Speaker 1: says that members feel like they're going around and around

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Speaker 1: on a roller coaster with the government hoping the workers

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Speaker 1: fall off and give up. Now, Erina joins me on

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Speaker 1: the line right now, Good morning to you, Erina, How

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Speaker 1: are you not too bad?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Who's striking today? Which different which different public service areas?

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Speaker 2: We've got a sue. So we've got the correctional officers

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Speaker 2: that they've got a twelve hour work stoppage.

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Speaker 3: You've got some of the teachers.

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Speaker 2: They're walking off for a four hour work stoppage. Today,

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Speaker 2: we've got power and water, they've got our four hour

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Speaker 2: work stoppage. Today. We've got nurses joining in, the fieries

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Speaker 2: are joining in, and aboriginal health practices.

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Speaker 1: How many do you reckon you've got down there at

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Speaker 1: the moment, Erina, Well.

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Speaker 2: We're all setting up in different areas, so we're we've

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Speaker 2: roughly got about fifty sixty so far. We've still got

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Speaker 2: another hour before we start for expecting about five to six.

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Speaker 1: Hundred between five and six hundred. That is a large number. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: people are obviously fed up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're really angry, Katy. They're a bit fed up

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Speaker 2: with how it's gone. They're over the moon that they

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Speaker 2: actually smashed the wage free but being offered two percent

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Speaker 2: wavering Tree, that's really erupted another fire within everyone.

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Speaker 1: Erin Or I got some messages yesterday on the text

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Speaker 1: sign people saying two percent that's more than what I

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Speaker 1: get as a private sector worker at this point in time. Oh.

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Speaker 2: Look, I can actually understand that a lot of our

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Speaker 2: union ventee union represent the private as well. But what

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Speaker 2: happens is the anti government is basically the leading employer.

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Speaker 2: They're the templates. That's what all privates would be striving

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Speaker 2: for for their wages and also their conditions of employment.

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Speaker 2: So higher public sector wages that tould bring up the

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Speaker 2: private sector as well. Erin, I know it.

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Speaker 1: The last day of action, you were pretty angry, Like, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I've never heard you so angry when you're up speaking.

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Speaker 1: What's the sentiment today and you know, are you feeling

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Speaker 1: the same, Oh?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, You're going to hear a lot more from

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Speaker 2: the workers today, Katie. They're going to be doing a

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Speaker 2: lot of the speeches because they want to put it

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Speaker 2: out to the media and to the territorians. But it's

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Speaker 2: not just angry union officials. It's actually the workers. They

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Speaker 2: are not happy that they may.

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Speaker 3: Deserve more than two percent.

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Speaker 2: Two percent is way below inflation. They're all hurting and

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Speaker 2: they just feel that this is a bit flap in

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Speaker 2: their face from files well.

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Speaker 1: And that's been the sentiment, hasn't it. I mean people

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Speaker 1: just want to be able, like from what I can gather,

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Speaker 1: and I did speak to Michelle Ais yesterday from the

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Speaker 1: education union. You know, you want to be at the

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Speaker 1: table with the government. You want there to be some

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Speaker 1: movement as well into maybe not even just the wage,

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Speaker 1: but some of the conditions. Is that correct?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's not just all about wages. You've got conditions

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Speaker 2: for teachers.

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Speaker 3: You've got a lot of issues going in power and water.

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Speaker 3: We all know what's going on corrections. There are absolutely

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Speaker 3: crisis levels for short starting staffing etc. The fire service

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Speaker 3: is an absolute message in dire straits as well, So

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Speaker 3: it's not just about wages.

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Speaker 1: Well erinor early. I'll be really interested to see how

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Speaker 1: it all goes today. You know, what is your message

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Speaker 1: for the government this morning.

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Speaker 2: I think they need to stop and actually listen. The

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Speaker 2: wage freeze getting rid of that was fantastic, but two

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Speaker 2: percent is not going to be accepted by anyone. They

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Speaker 2: actually really need to put a real waves offer for

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Speaker 2: people to consider. It's time to listen to your territory

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Speaker 2: and people who vote erin early.

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Speaker 1: The Secretary of Union's nt I appreciate your time as always,

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Speaker 1: let us know how it goes. If you get the chance,

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Speaker 1: send us a couple of photos so we can see

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Speaker 1: how how many people are down there.

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Speaker 2: We will definitely Katie for you. Thank you,