West Australian public servants have accepted a two-year pay deal with the state government, despite it breaking a pre-election promise for a 1.5 per cent a year deal.
CPSU/CSA members voted to endorse a new deal involving $1000 pay rises this year and 2018 that covers 33,000 workers.
Earlier this year, union state secretary Toni Walkington said industrial action might be taken as members were concerned that because the government had broken one promise it would take away more conditions and cut jobs.
However union assistant secretary Rikki Hendon said on Thursday the agreement makes gains on issues important to members.
"Their priority was always job security, fairer workloads and ensuring transparency in the public sector, and that is what this agreement delivers," she said.
She says the government came to the table on issues including providing 10 days family and domestic violence leave, stronger redundancy and redeployment clauses, and providing detailed information on the use of fixed term contracts and labour hire.
The Labor government has targeted the public sector to cut costs and tackle record budget deficit and debt, which has led to an industrial dispute with the police union which wants greater pay rises.
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