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3 June 2025
Union slams councils for rejecting childcare worker grant

WANGARATTA council has defended its decision not to take up a federal government grant that would increase the pay of early childhood workers.

The Australian Services Union (ASU) has criticised the Rural City of Wangaratta and four other Victorian council for rejecting the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Worker Retention Payment Grant, designed to support and retain early childhood educat...

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