AFP employees strike in Canberra to demand a better pay deal

The Canberra Times

Sworn and unsworn officers from the Australian Federal Police walked out of the job on August 28. They said poor compensation had made it hard to pay bills and many were considering a career-switch.

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00:00So the public servants do one job and we've been offered the same pay deal as the public

00:05servants and we don't do a public servant's job. So we get injured at work, we get psychologically

00:11injured at work, we work full shift work which takes years off our lives. This is very different

00:17to a public service job and we need to be paid fairly for it. When I wasn't in the job for very

00:23long I felt more valued then. I think now we're treated as a resource but not as people.

00:28We've had members walking out of the Edmund Barton building, the Winchester Police Centre

00:32and the Majura Police Complex here in Canberra today in an effort to improve the current

00:39bargaining position that the federal government and the AFP has put us under. Currently they are

00:45the lowest paid, base paid police officers in the country. They do a lot of excellent work,

00:50they do a lot of work behind the scenes that the community and even the government don't know what

00:55they do but their one aim is to keep Australia and Australians safe.

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