Hundreds of Victorian pathology workers have won their "David and Goliath battle" for a pay rise and more allowances after a Fair Work Commission decision.
Dorevitch Pathology workers will get an up to 20 per cent pay rise and up to 30 per cent increases on allowances, and back pay to July 2017, Health Workers Union secretary Diana Asmar said.
"This result is long overdue. The Dorevitch workplace agreement expired over 11 years (ago). Our members have effectively been living with a 2007 level of income to pay 2018 costs," she said in a statement on Friday.
"This was a David and Goliath battle. An isolated and fearful workforce in a traditionally non-unionised sector that had their real wages cut for over a decade. It took court applications, strikes, government intervention, weeks of forced mediation and years of struggle to get this outcome."
Staff had worked off the job in August after failing to secure a pay rise and in response to the company's lockout of some workers after protected industrial action a few weeks earlier.
At the height of the strike, Dorevitch Pathology boss Neville Moller left the company, which is a subsidiary of Prime Health.
