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PSA Says Greens Public Service Announcement Necessary To Start Rebuild Of Public Services
Thursday, 15 October 2026, 12:25 pm | PSA
"The Government’s cuts have been made with no plan and no thought to the current and future needs of New Zealanders", says Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons. More >>
New Mega-Ministry Admits It Can't Do The Same Job As It Plans To Cut 400 Roles
Wednesday, 14 October 2026, 1:26 pm | PSA
"The Ministry's proposal says, ‘a smaller organisation cannot simply undertake the same volume of work in the same way.’ That's a department telling New Zealanders in black & white that work will stop," said Duane Leo, National Secretary for the ... More >>
Geohazard Centre Goes Dark Again - More Proof Govt. Is Breaking The Basics
Tuesday, 13 October 2026, 10:13 am | PSA
The centre opened in 2018 so that analysts would monitor geohazard events around the clock, rather than relying on scientists on call from home. More >>
Mental Health Workers In South Island Stand Strong And See Off 90-Day Trials After Long Community Campaign
Sunday, 11 October 2026, 2:37 pm | PSA
The settlement follows years of protracted bargaining, mediation and facilitation through the Employment Relations Authority, and community rallies. More >>
Fixing The Basics? Govt Cuts Let Geohazard Monitoring Centre Go Dark Last Night
Saturday, 10 October 2026, 3:09 pm | PSA
The Prime Minister should front up to New Zealanders, admit that these cuts should never have occurred, and take responsibility for the centre being closed last night. More >>
National's Drug-Testing Plan Is Populist Rhetoric That Won't Work And Will Stretch MSD Staff Even Further
Thursday, 8 October 2026, 2:16 pm | PSA
The policy says testing would be "integrated into MSD's work-readiness and employment planning", starting with 10,000 tests in the first year "with the programme expanding". More >>
Home Support Workers Can’t Afford To Do Their Jobs As Petrol Prices Hit Record High
Thursday, 8 October 2026, 11:08 am | PSA
The PSA has written to Health Minister Simeon Brown this week calling for a rate increase and asking for the outcome of the 2026 review of rates, which was due on 1 July. More >>
Kids Waiting In Pain As Children’s Dental Service Starved Of Funding - New Report
Thursday, 8 October 2026, 9:33 am | PSA
Dental workers describe in the report how underfunding has worsened over the past three years under the National-led Government, leading to reduced services and more staff vacancies. More >>
Axe Hovers Over Hundreds Of IRD Workers As Agency Faces 20% Budget Cut
Wednesday, 7 October 2026, 8:38 am | PSA
Inland Revenue leadership will be putting proposals for cutting its budget to its Minister by the end of the year. More >>
Unions Go Back To The Authority To Stop FENZ Restructure
Tuesday, 6 October 2026, 12:08 pm | PSA
"We wrote to the board chair asking him to suspend the restructure. He refused, leaving the unions with no choice but to go back to the Authority," said Fleur Fitzsimons, National Secretary for the PSA Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. More >>
Labour’s Pay Equity Announcement First Step But Union Campaign Will Continue
Sunday, 4 October 2026, 3:34 pm | PSA
Pay equity makes economic and fiscal sense. PSA analysis based on Treasury’s own model shows reinstating it would grow the economy by $13.5 billion over four years, create around 13,000 jobs, and lift an estimated 11,000 children out of poverty. More >>
Greens Commitment To Full Pay Equity For Care And Support Workers Sets Benchmark
Thursday, 1 October 2026, 2:45 pm | PSA
The Greens today announced their commitment to repealing the Government’s changes to the Equal Pay Act, restoring the original law and settling the care and support workers’ claim. More >>
Community Organisations Call On Opposition Parties To Commit To Funding Care And Support Workers’ Pay Equity Settlement
Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 1:34 pm | PSA
The open letter, signed by 29 organisations including all the unions involved in the claim, the provider peak bodies, and a number of employers, states that the claim was all but agreed when the current Government gutted the Equal Pay Act. More >>
Unions To Host Public Investigation Into Cancelled Care And Support Workers’ Pay Equity Claim
Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 5:39 pm | PSA
Angela Meyer and Tania Dommett, two of the three fictional detectives behind Project Gender’s ShortChanged podcast, will investigate the real story behind the cancelled care and support workers’ pay equity claim. More >>
Women Must Come 1st - Improving Books Leave No Excuse For Anything Less Than A Full Care & Support Pay Equity Settlement
Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 1:23 pm | PSA
"The 65,000 mostly women care and support workers need a settlement that delivers everything in their claim," said Fleur Fitzsimons, National Secretary for the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. More >>
Opening Of Books Must Force Opposition Parties To Commit To Pay Equity
Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 8:18 am | PSA
Care and support workers are on average more than $29,000 worse off because of the scrapped pay equity claims with a level four support worker now missing out on a rate of $42.64 an hour. More >>
Pay Equity Poll: Voters Say Make The Fiscals Wait, Not Women
Saturday, 26 September 2026, 1:36 pm | PSA
This poll adds to growing public pressure on parties contesting the election to make a tangible commitment to restore pay equity. More >>
New Nurses Announcement Too Little, Too Late For Decimated Health System
Friday, 25 September 2026, 11:53 am | PSA
"All of these vacancies must be filled for New Zealand to have the fully functional public healthcare system we all want and deserve," says Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi national secretary, Fleur Fitzsimons. More >>
PSA Welcomes Pause On Chaotic Local Government Amalgamation
Thursday, 24 September 2026, 11:46 am | PSA
The amalgamation process was happening on top of a number of other significant local government reforms, include water, planning, regional council disestablishment and rates capping. More >>
Police Mental Health Response Change Programme Should Be Shelved
Wednesday, 23 September 2026, 4:42 pm | PSA
The final phase had been on hold while the changes were reviewed, following safety concerns raised by health workers, ambulance staff, unions and the Mental Health Foundation. More >>
