Greater Dandenong Council workers will stop their paperwork, mowing ovals, tending to parks and emptying bins as part of stopwork bans on Thursday.
Workers last week voted for the bans in protest against the new workplace agreement being offered to staff.
Australian Services Union assistant secretary Richard Duffy said workers were offered a ‘‘very unfair pay rise’’ and staff would also have to pay for parking in the council’s new civic building. ‘‘Management … have further infuriated staff with news that employees will have to pay for parking in the new council building,’’ he said.
Greater Dandenong chief executive John Bennie said there were likely to be disruptions to council services during the work bans.
The ‘‘fair and competitive’’ pay offer was well in excess of average CPI increases of 1.2 per cent, he said.
The council’s parking proposal aims to achieve equity for all parkers in central Dandenong, with incentives for council workers to ’’embrace green travel principles’’. “No staff worker is ’forced’ to pay for car parking,’’ he said.
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