Local council workers in Melbourne and Victorian teachers will walk off the job to demand increased wages during budget week next month.
The planned industrial action for workers across the Melbourne, Greater Dandenong, Darebin, Hobsons Bay, Hume, Maribyrnong, Merri-bek, and Yarra councils comes after council staff [stopped collecting rubbish earlier this month](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/vic-council-rubbish-collection-strike/106537100) in protest of pay conditions.
The Australian Services Union (ASU) has announced more than 1,000 council workers will walk off the job on May 5 — the day the Victorian government releases its budget.
The ASU said the strike would cause significant disruption to garbage collection, street cleansing, mowing, library services and aged-care services.
iknowwhoyourmotheris on
Who can strike about the fucking potholes everywhere.
Teachers I saw you getting drunk after that last protest, go fuck yourselves. If you don’t like it enter the real world and market forces will force a rise in wages. At the moment the real issue is quality and thats something parents should be protesting about not the teachers (apologies to the few amazing teachers who are the people I most admired but are less than 10% of the workforce).
NotZeikku202 on
Good for them. My street is a bit littered St the moment with full bins not picked up and the complaints to pressure the council is building amongst my neighbours. All your have to do is pay them enough to live.
Eddysgoldengun on
Garbos, nurses and first responsders deserve more, teachers are the most entitled pricks going.All my teachers bar one growing up were shit cunts too, if you didn’t want to deal with everyone’s little shits why did you choose teaching as a profession?
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Local council workers in Melbourne and Victorian teachers will walk off the job to demand increased wages during budget week next month.
The planned industrial action for workers across the Melbourne, Greater Dandenong, Darebin, Hobsons Bay, Hume, Maribyrnong, Merri-bek, and Yarra councils comes after council staff [stopped collecting rubbish earlier this month](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/vic-council-rubbish-collection-strike/106537100) in protest of pay conditions.
The Australian Services Union (ASU) has announced more than 1,000 council workers will walk off the job on May 5 — the day the Victorian government releases its budget.
The ASU said the strike would cause significant disruption to garbage collection, street cleansing, mowing, library services and aged-care services.
Who can strike about the fucking potholes everywhere.
Teachers I saw you getting drunk after that last protest, go fuck yourselves. If you don’t like it enter the real world and market forces will force a rise in wages. At the moment the real issue is quality and thats something parents should be protesting about not the teachers (apologies to the few amazing teachers who are the people I most admired but are less than 10% of the workforce).
Good for them. My street is a bit littered St the moment with full bins not picked up and the complaints to pressure the council is building amongst my neighbours. All your have to do is pay them enough to live.
Garbos, nurses and first responsders deserve more, teachers are the most entitled pricks going.All my teachers bar one growing up were shit cunts too, if you didn’t want to deal with everyone’s little shits why did you choose teaching as a profession?
Do we know which councils? Good on them, frankly.