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Banned - Staff at BoM have been banned from publishing official social media posts and certain live radio crosses without being approved by an official administrator beforehand.

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Dispute - Union members have been using weather forecasts to broadcast details of an ongoing pay dispute.

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Hashtags - On official social media posts regarding forecasts, staff have been adding hashtags: #SupportUs, #5yearpayfreeze, #BoMonSTRIKE, #CPSU, and #auspol.

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Link - They ended social media posts with a link to a petition seeking to resolve the pay dispute.

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Acrostic poem - Accompanying an official BoM satellite photo staff wrote an acrostic poem with the message, "BOM ON STRIKE".

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Radio cross - In a few live radio crosses some weather forecasters informed the public of the pay dispute by reading out a statement.

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Enterprise agreement - The last enterprise agreement expired in 2014, and since then there have been on-going negotiations to resolve the pay dispute, with little luck.

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Weather - According to The Canberra Times, "The latest offer was voted down by 60% of members in December."

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Rolling strikes - Since November last year, BoM staff have been participating in rolling strikes to cause "maximum disruption" according to The Guardian.

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Support - The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) backs the staff's expression of protest. The CPSU's deputy secretary, Beth Vincent-Pietsch made the statement of support, according to The Canberra Times.

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Statement - "The public deserve to know why the hardworking employees of the Bureau — the people who bring them vital weather information every day — have been forced to endure a wage freeze for nearly five years," she said.

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Sacrifice - She explains that it is "simply because they refuse to sacrifice working conditions".

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Valuable - "Our members do this work because they know it is a valuable community service," she added.

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Hurting - "But five years without a pay rise while their cost of living continues to climb is hurting them and their families."

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Overwhelmingly rejected - "After three votes that overwhelmingly rejected management's substandard offers and a refusal by management to take part in a conciliation process through the Fair Work Commission," she continued.

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No choice - "Our members have been left with no choice but to seek public support to resolve this protracted industrial dispute."

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Four years of negotiations - "After four years of negotiations, we have managed to claw back much that was under attack," Vincent-Pietsch said.

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New enterprise agreement - "BoM’s refusal to offer a fair deal to their workforce makes it one of a very small number of Commonwealth agencies that have not been able to successfully negotiate a new enterprise agreement."

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Increasingly bitter - "Rather than sit down and talk about how this increasingly bitter dispute can be resolved," she continued.

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Gag - "Management have instead gone to the extraordinary lengths of attempting to gag employees from taking part in lawful industrial action."

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Broken - "This is further evidence that Australia’s workplace laws are broken and that the rules need to be changed." She said.

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Wage freeze - "The Bureau has used a wage freeze to try to force employees to sacrifice important conditions."

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Spokesman - A spokesman from BoM also made a statement regarding the industrial action.

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Not compromised - He said BoM management have the "responsibility to ensure that its products and services, including its forecasts and warnings, are not compromised".

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Maintain the standard - He continued, "The Bureau is putting various measures in place to meet that responsibility and to maintain the standard of its products and services".

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Formal vote - "The Bureau of Meteorology has put to its staff a new Enterprise Agreement for consideration, ahead of a formal vote commencing on June 22."

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Policy - "The proposed agreement provides a substantially front-loaded pay increase, protects core conditions, is financially sustainable and complies with the Government’s Workplace Bargaining Policy."

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Sustainable - "It enables the Bureau to continue to provide the critical services we provide to the Australian community in an affordable, sustainable way."

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Ongoing negotiation - He said, "The proposed new Enterprise Agreement follows ongoing negotiation in good faith with staff and unions."

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