United Voice News
Child care workers at Griffith University’s Nathan campus in Queensland stopped work for a third time on Monday 8 March, in protest at the inequity of their pay rates.
Workers chose Monday’s International Women’s Day to make their point in a 12-hour strike to highlight the uni’s unfair treatment of wage claims from staff.
LHMU Branch Secretary Gary Bullock said the university had offered other general staff a 4 per cent per annum wage increase for the next three years, while refusing to offer child care workers any increase.
"The wages of child care workers at the university are already significantly lower than other workers performing comparable roles," Gary said.
This was the third time workers at Griffith have taken action to highlight the unfair treatment of child care workers at the university.
