Border workers reject pay offer

Workers at the Department of Immigration and Border Protection have overwhelmingly rejected a new pay offer.

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Australian Border Force officers have rejected a new pay offer as they strike around the country. (AAP)

Australian Border Force officers have overwhelmingly rejected a new pay offer as they strike around the country.

More than 10,000 Department of Immigration and Border Protection staff took part in a ballot with 90 per cent rejecting a government offer.

The offer would have cut the take-home pay of many staff by $8000 a year or more, the public sector union's national secretary Nadine Flood said in a statement on Tuesday.


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