Union claims victory in blunting Allan's churn-and-burn, false-savings policy, saying there are better, bigger ways to save taxpayer money.
The Victorian Community and Public Sector Union has hailed the release of a heavily tempered response to the Independent Review of the Victorian Public Service as a "major victory", claiming success in "defending more than two-thirds of the 6,000 positions targeted by the Silver review."
As the Jacinta Allan government continues to talk tough over the latest raft of cost-cutting measures totalling around $4 billion, the Victorian public service union says it put compelling evidence of cost-reduction alternatives to job shedding before the government and has had many of them adopted.