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August 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Queensland’s public servants’ union warns there will be mayhem as members protest against new rules that will see state employees sacked “at the stroke of a pen” and jobs contracted out.
A two-page directive issued by Queensland’s Public Service Commissioner wipes the employment-security and contracting clauses in the Enterprise Bargaining Agreement for all public servants except police and health workers.
More than 6000 jobs are confirmed to go from the state’s public service, and Premier Campbell Newman has earmarked another 14,000 cuts.
The public servants’ union, Together, said government workers may now be fired on a whim and extra public service work outsourced, with school cleaners the first to lose out.
Together secretary Adam Scott said the directive was an outrageous attack on the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission and workers’ rights to bargain collectively.
“The government can sack the worker at the stroke of the pen as a result of these changes. They were designed to strip away the working conditions without any reference to the independent umpire,” Mr Scott told reporters in Brisbane.
“This is an unprecedented attack on the working rights of public-sector workers in a way that was never contemplated under Work Choices.”
He said planned protected industrial action from August 8 would be intensified, and the union would push for a campaign like the one against the federal Work Choices industrial relations regime.
“We will see more significant escalation of the industrial mayhem that we already have planned,” he said.
Acting Public Service Commissioner Dr Brett Heyward said the employment-security and contracting-out clauses were overly restrictive and made reform of the public service difficult.
“By removing these clauses, it allows for the efficient restructure of government departments which will in turn lead to greater efficiencies and savings in the public sector,” Dr Heyward said in a statement.
Mr Scott said the argument that Queensland couldn’t afford to pay 20,000 workers had been exposed by one of the men who audited the state’s finances at the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission on Tuesday.
“(Commissioner) Doug McTaggart said clearly this government is not borrowing money to pay public-sector wages despite what is being said by the premier and the treasurer,” he said.
AAP was not at the hearing and has not viewed a transcript of proceedings.
Queensland Treasurer Tim Nicholls says Queensland has a $4.5 billion dollar operating deficit.
“Spending exceeds revenue, that means we have to go out and borrow that money to fund those operations,” he told ABC Radio.
Opposition treasury spokesman Curtis Pitt says Dr McTaggart’s admission, under oath, is devastating to the LNP’s case for widespread job cuts.
“(He) exposed the hoax,” Mr Pitt told reporters in Brisbane.
Mr Pitt said the opposition was denied a brief by the commissioners of the audit following the release of an interim report in June.
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