Public servant deserve what they ask for

Public servants are some of the hardest working people in this country and the fact the State Government are so complacent about their wages is just ridiculous! That is just part of the issue, they are not all payed the same, public servants in health for example get payed more than those in education despite working in the same position. Furthermore those who work in the private sector as against the goverment sector also get paid more.

The Government need to step up and do something soon before the Queensland Public Sector Union and public servants walk off the job completely. These workers have been rallying for so long just to get the slightest increase in pay. I think they have every right to get what they are asking for, no matter what the inflation rate is. 3.25 per cent, I think is very reasonable and that is just the minimum so the least the Government should do is give them that.

Everyone knows what went on with Work Choices and now the Federal Government is turning this around. Public sector wages are just as unjust as Work choices so how can anyone be so different on the two issues. If government’s kept Australian workers happy and treated them more fairly, the country would be in a far better position.

There is no point describing our country as the best country in the world and continuously talk up our standard of our working environment when the Government cannot deliver. Just look at the global credit crisis, in particular Wall Street and the state of the US economy; they have got into the position due to greed. If the State Government are not prepared to give public servants what they deserve, simply because they think they are asking too much than it is a real shame and sooner or later it will have greater consequences.

By Stephanee Muir