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1000 Days Since Landmark Pay Equity Deal Expired - Workers Losing $145 A Week
Saturday, 29 March 2025, 5:13 am | PSA
With no new pay equity settlement being agreed, care and support workers have seen their hard-won pay equity settlement eroded by inflation and the failure to maintain relativity above the minimum wage, says Melissa Woolley, an Assistant Secretary with ... More >>
Minister - Hear The Voice Of Health Unions If You Want A Better Health System
Friday, 28 March 2025, 12:17 pm | PSA
We agree with the Minister on one thing - New Zealanders deserve a health system that ensures patients get timely, quality health care, but he’s going about it the wrong way, said National Secretary for the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga ... More >>
Preservation Of New Zealand’s History Threatened By Latest Job Cuts
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 4:49 pm | PSA
"This is another broken promise by the Government who repeatedly told New Zealand there would be no cuts to frontline services." More >>
Cuts Will Ramp Up Pressure On Corrections Staff
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 1:47 pm | PSA
Corrections’ latest change proposal would result in a net reduction of 49 roles in its already stretched People and Capability, said Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons. More >>
Latest Privacy Breach At Health NZ Should Be A Wake-up Call To Reverse IT Cuts
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 12:48 pm | PSA
Health NZ today confirmed an IT security incident in October 2024 that resulted in unauthorised access to some staff information from 2020 to 2024 at Capital, Coast & Hutt Valley, and Wairarapa districts. More >>
Tertiary Education Commission Faces Another Round Of Damaging Cuts
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 5:11 am | PSA
Ordering more cuts when the Government knows costs can only be saved by reducing the TEC workforce shows how little the Government cares about those who help our tertiary education sector function effectively. More >>
PSA Takes Probation Officer Pay Equity Claim To The Employment Relations Authority
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 3:36 pm | PSA
The application to the ERA asks it to decide rates of remuneration for probation officers that are free from gender-based discrimination. The ERA has the power to fix those rates. More >>
More Damaging Cuts To Defence Civilian Workforce Shows Hypocrisy Of Govt Promise
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 2:37 pm | PSA
NZDF told staff today of plans for a major restructure of the civilian workforce resulting in a net reduction of 374 roles. This comes on top of cuts late last year which saw 144 civilian workers take voluntary redundancy. More >>
Internal Affairs Gutted Again With Govt Planning To Cut 133 Roles
Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 2:49 pm | PSA
Staff were told today of the latest proposed job cuts which could result in the net loss of 64 permanent roles, plus 69 fixed term roles which are not being renewed beyond 1 September, for a total reduction of 133 roles. These are spread across all ... More >>
PPPs Pose Risks To New Zealand Workers
Friday, 14 March 2025, 12:04 pm | PSA
"PPPs are a failed model. It makes a false assumption that private enterprise will be more efficient. The reality is the need to make a profit means money is taken away from providing the service." More >>
PSA Takes Legal Action Against Councils To End Pay Discrimination Against Library Workers
Friday, 14 March 2025, 9:48 am | PSA
The PSA lodged the claim with Auckland, Tauranga, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin councils in 2019. Since then, the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi (PSA) has worked with the councils in good faith to reach a settlement. More >>
Sad Day For Low Paid Workers As Govt Rolls Back Living Wage Requirement
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 2:38 pm | PSA
"The Government again shows it doesn’t care about the most vulnerable workers in New Zealand," said PSA National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons. More >>
Five Biotechnology Teams Saved At Callaghan Innovation, But Hundreds Of Redundancies Still Expected
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 11:05 am | PSA
"This whole approach has been clumsy from the get-go with job cuts last year coming ahead of the science system reform plan this year, causing unnecessary distress and uncertainty for many Callaghan workers and their families." More >>
No Place For Privatisation In Health - Alarm Bells Should Be Ringing
Friday, 7 March 2025, 1:11 pm | PSA
"The Government’s privatisation agenda has been well and truly exposed in Minister Brown’s priorities," said Fleur Fitzsimons, National Secretary for the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. More >>
PSA Oranga Tamariki Social Workers, Supervisors, Care And Protection Workers, To Strike Tomorrow
Thursday, 6 March 2025, 3:39 pm | PSA
Members across the country will take part in the total withdrawal of labour, including social workers and members working in care and protection residences, youth justice residences, residential homes, and the national contact centre. More >>
Cuts To Frontline Health Services Exposed By Health Workers Survey
Monday, 3 March 2025, 8:07 am | PSA
Make no mistake this report makes clear that health is in crisis and Government policies are to blame. We now have stark evidence from health workers who know the system best that funding cuts and the hiring freeze are having a direct impact on services. More >>
Strike Action Begins Tomorrow At Oranga Tamariki Over Insulting Pay Offer, Unmanageable Workloads
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 4:39 pm | PSA
"Workers are taking this action to send a very strong message to Oranga Tamariki that it needs to take their concerns seriously and make a fair offer," said Fleur Fitzsimons, National Secretary for the Public Service Association for Te Pūkenga ... More >>
NZDF And PSA Dispute Settled
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 10:14 am | PSA
This week PSA members, who are civilian workers, voted to ratify a new collective agreement which includes pay increases for every union member covered by the Collective Agreement. More >>
PSA Appoints Fleur Fitzsimons As A National Secretary
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 1:30 pm | PSA
To ensure continuity the PSA has appointed Fleur ahead of National Secretary Kerry Davies’ retirement later in year. The PSA is the union of 95,000 members, working in the Public Service, State Sector, Health, Local Government and Community and Public ... More >>
Stop Defence Civilian Job Cuts If The Govt Is Serious About Increasing Spending
Monday, 24 February 2025, 9:44 am | PSA
"We welcome the u-turn on Defence spending by the Government and urge it to start by stopping any further cuts to the civilian workforce," said Fleur Fitzsimons, Assistant Secretary for the Public Service Association for Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. More >>
