CSIRO Staff Contemplate Industrial Action  Over Conditions and Pay. (February 1, 2011)

The CSIRO Staff Association have published the disturbing media release below. There is no indication as to whether or not the Chairman of the CSIRO board, Australian of the Year, Simon McKeon has taken any interest in the matter.

[Note added 02/02/11: A CSIRO spokesman told  The Australian's Pia Akeman that its proposed package was "fair and responsible, and provides many very positive enhancements to terms and conditions for staff. We recognise that legislation provides for such a course of action. However, the approach by the unions to focus and direct resources into industrial disputation will not, in our view, assist in the timely finalisation of a new enterprise agreement.]

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