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Weather staff in pay row

Bureau of Meteorology staff are boycotting radio interviews, but say public weather alerts will not be affected, as part of a continuing pay dispute with the Federal Government.

A Community and Public Sector Union spokesman said staff planned to read prepared statements ahead of their broadcasts outlining the loss of 11,000 public service jobs, including some at the bureau.

"Now they are trying to cut our working conditions and pay," their statement reads.

"Bureau staff are now taking industrial action to protect our jobs and the service we've been providing to Australia for 107 years."

But WA forecaster Luke Huntington said staff would refuse radio interviews until Friday.

Staff, he said, would continue to issue weather information to the media.

In a statement this week, CPSU said bureau staff were part of a list of public servants, including those from the Agriculture Department and quarantine and meat inspectors, who would take industrial action as part of the dispute.

A spokesman for Employment Minister Eric Abetz described the union's campaign as "misleading" and its claim for a 12 per cent pay rise would cost 10,000 jobs.