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Tribunal Hearing On Te Aka Whai Ora Must Go Ahead
Friday, 23 February 2024, 5:34 pm | PSA
Bypassing a Waitangi Tribunal hearing that challenges the closure of Te Aka Whai Ora and its work would show a lack of credibility and accountability from the Government, said the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. Stuff reports ... More >>
Deadline Looms For Plans To Cut Public Services For New Zealanders
Wednesday, 14 February 2024, 2:47 pm | PSA
Savings plans ordered by the Government to fund tax cuts are due to be filed with the relevant Ministers any day now, bringing closer likely cuts to public services. "Without doubt, the scale and breadth of the cuts demanded by the Government ... More >>
Wider And Deeper Cuts To Public Services On Cards As Government Scrambles To Fund Tax Cuts
Wednesday, 24 January 2024, 1:38 pm | PSA
Public services relied on by New Zealanders are at risk as the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon comes clean and reveals the true extent of the Government’s plans to cut public services. In the election campaign National identified 24 government departments ... More >>
Weather Forecasters And Others At NIWA Take Strike Action
Monday, 11 December 2023, 4:23 pm | PSA
Climate scientists and technicians including, marine and freshwater biologists, geologists, ocean ecologists and other support staff at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have gone on strike to push for an improved ... More >>
Statistics NZ Accepts Restructure Process Flawed, But Presses Ahead With Job Cuts
Monday, 11 December 2023, 11:20 am | PSA
The PSA is disappointed Statistics NZ is pressing ahead with a restructure that will result in the loss of 28 jobs. "This will be a shock to many workers and their whānau this close to Christmas and our hearts go out to them - this was not ... More >>
Workers At Radio New Zealand Warn Of Industrial Action Over Pay Claim
Friday, 8 December 2023, 3:29 pm | PSA
The failure of RNZ management to agree to a pay rise which fairly reflects the rising cost of living could see workers at RNZ take industrial action warns the PSA and E tū. Workers are pushing for a 7% rise while RNZ is offering 5.5%. "Workers ... More >>
Nicola Willis Threat To Back Track On Te Reo Allowances Will Be Strongly Resisted
Wednesday, 6 December 2023, 10:11 am | PSA
The PSA is deeply disappointed by the threat from new Public Services Minister Nicola Willis to remove allowances recognising competency in Te Reo across the public sector. "We will resist any backtracking on the progress we have made in recognising ... More >>
Coalition Agreement Threatens Services New Zealanders Rely On And Risks Racial Division
Friday, 24 November 2023, 2:07 pm | PSA
The incoming Government’s coalition agreements are a blueprint for slashing the public and community services New Zealanders rely on and risk setting back race relations. "The plans unveiled today represent an attack on public and community services, ... More >>
Government Grinches Risk Stealing Christmas For Thousands Of Social Workers Owed A Pay Rise
Thursday, 23 November 2023, 3:55 pm | PSA
The Government is dragging the chain over agreed pay equity payments for thousands of social workers in community and iwi organisations a year after promising to pay these workers fairly. "It’s disappointing that these significant payments ... More >>
Unions File Pay Equity Claim For 65,000 Care And Support Workers
Tuesday, 21 November 2023, 1:13 pm | PSA
A second pay equity claim has been filed for care and support workers by their unions - the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi, E tū, the National Union of Public Employees and New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi ... More >>
PSA Calls On Incoming Governing Parties To Support A Strong Public Service
Tuesday, 7 November 2023, 12:39 pm | PSA
As we celebrate Public Service Day today, the PSA has urged National, ACT and NZ First to acknowledge the valuable work of public service workers and continue to support them. "We celebrate Public Service Day to acknowledge the critical and ... More >>
Sad Day For Workplace Safety As Job Losses Confirmed For WorkSafe
Friday, 3 November 2023, 12:43 pm | PSA
Confirmation of significant job losses at WorkSafe means workplaces across New Zealand will be less safe in coming years, the PSA warned today. The final decisions on WorkSafe’s restructure proposal announced last month confirms 113 roles being disestablished ... More >>
Public Service Leads Way In Closing Gender And Ethnic Pay Gaps And Promoting Women In Leadership
Thursday, 2 November 2023, 4:10 pm | PSA
The PSA welcomes latest data which shows the public service continuing to lead the private sector in closing gender and ethnic pay gaps and promoting women to leadership positions. The 2023 Public Service Workforce Data released by Te Kawa Mataaho (Public ... More >>
Defence Force’s Last-minute Appeal Denies Workers The Payments They Are Owed
Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 1:18 pm | PSA
More than 500 Defence Force workers have been celebrating an Employment Relations Authority determination that awards them backpay. However, a last-minute appeal by the Defence Force to the Employment Court means they now face more uncertainty. "We ... More >>
Unions Welcome A New Model For Employing Staff In The Water Sector
Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 10:47 am | PSA
Members of AWUNZ, E tū, and the PSA have endorsed a multi-union, multi-employer collective agreement that will help improve water services, overcome critical staff shortages, and ensure decent workplaces for everyone working in the industry. "This ... More >>
Te Whatu Ora Must Stop Unjustly Delaying Pay Equity For 65,000 Care And Support Workers
Thursday, 5 October 2023, 4:22 pm | PSA
The Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi (PSA), E tū, and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) are calling on Te Whatu Ora to stop interfering in the Care and Support Workers’ pay ... More >>
18,000 Allied Health Workers Receive Significant Pay Equity Offer
Monday, 2 October 2023, 1:56 pm | PSA
Today about 18,000 health workers in more than 100 Allied professions - including physiotherapists, social workers, and laboratory scientists - are being offered a proposed pay equity settlement to honour the true value of the work they do. Most ... More >>
National Promises Christmas Chainsaw Massacre - Cuts To Public Services And Jobs
Thursday, 14 September 2023, 11:18 am | PSA
The PSA has called National heartless and thoughtless with its plan revealed today to cut public services and jobs by Christmas. "It’s heartless, it’s reckless and lays bare how ignorant National is about how the public service actually works," ... More >>
Workers At NZ Telehealth Services Vote To Strike For 24 Hours For Fair Pay And Respect
Thursday, 14 September 2023, 11:08 am | PSA
Whakarongorau Aotearoa workers behind New Zealand’s major telehealth services - including Healthline, 1737 Need To Talk?, Quitline, Gambling Helpline, Safe To Talk, Afterhours GP and more - will strike for 24 hours from 3pm Friday 15 September. ... More >>
Watch Out New Zealand, Cuts To Health Spending Coming Under A National-led Government
Wednesday, 13 September 2023, 11:10 am | PSA
National leader Christopher Luxon has today indicated that a National-led government will not invest in the resources in the health system that support the frontline. In an interview on Morning Report, Mr Luxon said that spending on so called frontline ... More >>
