Anyone who didn’t see this coming has been living in a rock. Or possibly hiding in a basement with Joe Biden.
ABC staff has voted against a pay rise freeze.
Yes, you read that correctly. In the midst of a pandemic and economic hell for the majority of hard-working Australians, these media buffoons have voted to give themselves more of your money.
Communications Minister Paul Fletcher had requested, not once, but several times, that the corporation’s staff vote to defer their pay increases — as many other publicly funded bodies have.
But no.
In May, Fletcher asked the ABC to pause a 2 per cent pay rise.
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