澳大利亚储备银行（RBA）在周二上调利率后不久，便拒绝了其员工提出的加薪请求以及要求补发被拖欠的工资的请求。
The Reserve Bank rejected its own staff’s requests for a real pay rise and backpay on lost wages just hours after it hiked interest rates on Tuesday.
尽管RBA多次警告称，如果工资增长速度与通货膨胀率相匹配，可能会导致消费者物价进一步上涨，但员工们认为，根据银行自身的预测，他们的工资实际上将会落后于生活成本的增长速度。
While the RBA has repeatedly warned that inflation-matched wage growth risks pushing up consumer prices, its employees argue the bank’s own forecasts show their pay will slip behind the cost of living.
在RBA位于悉尼的总部宣布加息决定时，行长米歇尔·布洛克（Michele Bullock）承认澳大利亚的工人正在面临实际工资下降的问题。她表示：“人们感到非常愤怒和不安——因为所有商品的价格都在上涨，而他们的工资却没有跟上通货膨胀的步伐。”
Announcing the rate hike at the RBA’s Sydney headquarters, the governor, Michele Bullock, conceded Australian workers were suffering real wage cuts. “People are feeling, quite rightly, very annoyed and very upset about the fact that the costs of everything are rising, that their wages are not keeping pace with that [inflation],” Bullock said.
周二晚上，布洛克通过电子邮件向员工们征求意见，希望他们投票支持一项几乎与7月份已被54%的员工否决的加薪方案。
As staff left the office on Tuesday evening, Bullock emailed them asking them to vote for a pay offer nearly identical to one already rejected by 54% of staff in July.
RBA提出的加薪方案为：在三年内总共增加9.5%的工资，其中今年增加3.7%，随后两年分别增加3%和2.8%。而7月份被否决的加薪方案则提议在三年内分别增加3.5%、3%和3%。
The RBA has offered a 9.5% pay rise over three years, split between 3.7% in the current year, then 3% and 2.8% in subsequent years. The defeated July offer proposed a 3.5%, 3% and 3% split.
截至8月份，澳大利亚的整体物价涨幅达到了4%，超过了RBA的预测。
Prices across the economy rose 4% in the year to August, above RBA forecasts.
布洛克在给员工的电子邮件中写道：“你们中的一些人向我们反映了生活成本上升所带来的压力。同时，我们也需要履行作为澳大利亚中央银行的职责。”员工们要求在三年内加薪11%，或者至少达到通货膨胀率的水平；此外，他们还要求获得在家工作的便利措施以及补发从9月份开始的工资。
“Some of you have told us about the pressure of higher living costs,” Bullock’s email to staff read. “At the same time, we need to balance that with our responsibilities as Australia’s central bank.”Staff have requested increases of 11% over three years or in line with inflation, whichever is higher. They have also sought work-from-home protections and backpay for the current pay period, which started in September.
RBA拒绝了所有这些要求，并且在周二的公平工作委员会（Fair Work Commission）会议上也无法与代表员工的财务行业工会（Finance Sector Union, FSU）达成任何共识。
The RBA has rejected each of these and could not reach agreement with the Finance Sector Union (FSU), representing staff, at the Fair Work Commission on Tuesday.
员工们已经自掏腰包数百美元，如果继续拒绝接受澳大利亚储备银行的报价，可能会损失数月的加薪收入。布洛克在邮件中强调了这一点：“如果下一次投票结果为赞成……加薪可能会提前一个月或更长时间体现在我们的薪资中。”
Staff are already hundreds of dollars out of pocket and could miss out on months of higher pay if they do not give in and accept the RBA’s offer, a point underlined in Bullock’s“If the next vote returns a yes result … the increase could be reflected in our pay a month or more earlier,” it read.
邮件暗示，如果该报价未获支持，员工可能无法在日历年内获得加薪。
The email suggested staff may not receive a pay rise this calendar year if the offer was not supported.
布洛克此前在九月的议会听证会上警告称，全经济体的劳动力成本正以3.5%的速度上涨，并加剧了通胀压力。
Bullock has warned that labour costs across the economy are rising by 3.5% and adding to inflation, most recently at a parliamentary hearing in September.
“这本身就蕴含着通胀压力，在这种情况下，我们必须关注如何降低通胀，”布洛克在听证会上表示。
“That’s got inflationary pressure baked into it, and while that is the case we’re going to have to be concerned about bringing inflation down,” Bullock told the hearing.
“只要单位劳动力成本的涨幅超过——我们的目标是2.5%——我们就不会感到安心。”“相当愤怒”未获授权公开发言的员工表示，该行似乎更在意公众看法，而非加薪的成本。澳大利亚储备银行拒绝置评。
“We won’t be comfortable while unit labour costs are rising by more than – our target was 2.5%.”‘Pretty incensed’Staff, not authorised to speak publicly, said the bank seemed more concerned about public perceptions than the cost of a wage rise. The RBA declined to comment.
一名员工称，同事们正在失去对高层管理的信任，并将拒绝支付追溯工资视为迫使员工接受协议的手段。
One employee said colleagues were losing trust in senior management and viewed the backpay refusal as an effort to pressure staff into accepting the deal.
“由于第二次报价基本上比第一次更差，现在每个人都显得非常愤怒，”一名员工说道。
“Everyone seems to be really fired up now [by] the fact the second offer was basically worse than the first,” one staff member said.
“我从未听人说过高层管理的坏话……[但]人们已经变得相当愤怒，这有可能严重破坏工作的开展。”工会表示，修订后的报价不可接受，并警告称澳大利亚储备银行的员工可能会辞职并另谋高就。
“I’ve never heard anyone speak ill of upper management … [but] people have become pretty incensed and that has the potential to really undermine the work that gets done.”The union has said the revised offer is unacceptable and warned RBA staff will probably quit and seek work elsewhere.
金融服务工会全国秘书朱莉娅·安格里萨诺周五表示：“澳大利亚储备银行本应成为雇主的典范，但他们却把员工当傻子耍。”
“The RBA should be a model employer, but instead they are treating their staff like mugs,” Julia Angrisano, the FSU national secretary, said on Friday.
自2021年员工人数约为1400人增至2025年的2000人后，澳大利亚储备银行面临员工成本激增的问题，截至2025年6月，其年度总成本达3.949亿美元。
The RBA has faced surging staff costs after its headcount rose from about 1,400 employees in 2021 to 2,000 in 2025, with a combined annual cost of $394.9m as of June 2025.
它还额外支出10亿美元，用于翻修其位于悉尼马丁广场的历史悠久办公楼，此前发现了石棉，且建筑成本飙升。布洛克在2025年表示，她对修订后的成本缺乏信心，最初预测为2.6亿美元。
It is also spending an extra $1bn to renovate its historic office in Sydney’s Martin Place after asbestos was discovered and construction costs surged. Bullock in 2025 said she had low confidence in the revised cost, originally forecast at $260m.
对薪酬提议的投票预计在10月15日至19日进行，就在联邦公共服务薪酬决定公布几天后。公务员正在寻求三年内加薪15%，而阿尔巴尼斯政府声称这不可能。
A vote on the pay offer is expected from 15 to 19 October, days after the federal public service pay decision is announced. Public servants are seeking a pay rise of 15% over three years, which the Albanese government has claimed is impossible.