They also want to be offered work before the company contracts it out. The workers want the company to guarantee labour hire workers will receive the same pay and conditions as regular employees and cap the use of lower-paid external workers. 'There is no use having a wage increase if you have no job,' he said. 'StarTrack is not proposing any reductions in pay or conditions for its employees.' But Mr Kaine said the strike was not about a raise. 'While we respect the decision of the Fair Work Commission, there will be delivery impacts (on Thursday) at a time when the delivery of essential items has never been more important,' they said. But a spokesperson for StarTrack said its final offer to the TWU - a nine per cent pay rise over three years - was the best among its competitors, and rejected union fears of job insecurity. Mr Kaine said Amazon's Flex service was creating a new workforce based on sham and illegal arrangements in competition with employed workers. 'That's a direct attack on the job security of these workers and on the financial security of themselves and their families,' he said. Flanked by striking StarTrack workers, TWU national secretary Michael Kaine on Thursday said the past few years had seen a steady increase in work being taken from employees and given to other companies. Workers at both companies want their bosses to stop outsourcing work to contractors and companies like Amazon.

Parcel deliveries will be affected again next Thursday when about 2500 FedEx workers walk off the job for 24 hours. The Fair Work Commission on Wednesday ruled against StarTrack, which had claimed the strike would jeopardise lives and health by impacting vaccine supply. Up to 2000 StarTrack employees walked off the job at midnight after crisis talks after a bid to block the strike action failed on Wednesday.

Workers at a major parcel delivery company are striking across the country, dealing another blow to Australia's overwhelmed postal system.

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