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Mental Health Worker Numbers Don’t Tell Full Story Of Service Under Stress And Strain
Friday, 11 July 2025, 10:55 am | PSA
The Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey today said Health NZ payroll data showed total full-time staff employed in mental health growing by more than 9 per cent year on year between Quarter 3 in 2023 and Quarter 1 2025. More >>
Capping Rates Will Accelerate The Privatisation Of Locally Owned Assets
Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 9:27 am | PSA
Rates are the main tool councils have to ensure it can meet the needs of communities for quality facilities and services. Capping rates would see councils forced to make difficult decisions to run down facilities like libraries, sports grounds and pools, ... More >>
First-Ever Strike At Pharmac
Monday, 7 July 2025, 3:44 pm | PSA
Pharmac staff will be picketing outside their office at 40 Mercer Street from 10:30am-11:30am during the industrial action. More >>
PSA Welcomes Settlement Of Te Roopu Taurima Industrial Dispute
Thursday, 3 July 2025, 10:04 am | PSA
The settlement follows an 8-month dispute. The employer banned Kaitaataki and Poutaaki (residential whare leaders) from working additional hours before Christmas and threatened a six-week suspension in response to low level strike action. More >>
Pain Inflicted On Lives Of Public Service Workers Exposed In Housing Report
Thursday, 3 July 2025, 7:49 am | PSA
The Government not only cut jobs, but there remains a continued threat to the security of employment in Wellington. Insecure employment undermines the ability of people to make important life decisions like buying a house and starting a family. More >>
Opposition MPs To Present Support Workers With Giant Bank Cheques Representing Their Lost $20,644.45 Pay Equity Wages
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 11:23 am | PSA
July 1 heralds pay increases for politicians while care and support workers mark three years to the day waiting for one. Their pay equity claim - now cancelled by the National-led Government - was initiated on 1 July 2022. More >>
MPs To Present Support Workers With Giant Bank Cheques Representing Their Lost $20,644.45 Pay Equity Wages
Monday, 30 June 2025, 1:28 pm | PSA
PSA analysis shows support workers would be $20,644.45 better off if they’d been paid equity rates over the three years people in Government have failed to deliver their settlement. More >>
Auditor-General Turns Down PSA Request To Investigate Health NZ, Refers Issues To Auditor
Sunday, 29 June 2025, 2:18 pm | PSA
The Government’s underfunding of health to pay for tax cuts has put the health system under enormous pressure and now more than ever taxpayers need assurance health dollars are being spent wisely. We look forward to Audit NZ looking into this. More >>
Another Day, Another Attack On Workers’ Rights - Employers Can Dock Pay Of Workers Who Take Partial Strike Action
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 8:17 am | PSA
The Employment Relations (Pay Deductions for Partial Strikes) Amendment Bill allows employers to deduct 10% of a worker’s wage for partial strike action such as not performing a task. More >>
New Te Whatu Ora / Health NZ CEO Takes Over At A Challenging Time For Health
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 1:09 pm | PSA
Dr Bramley takes on the role at a very challenging time for our public health system. Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand has been starved of the funding it needs to deliver the better patient outcomes the Government is demanding, said Fleur Fitzsimons. More >>
Food Quality And Safety Will Suffer If Meat Inspection Service Is Privatised As Govt Proposes
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 10:16 am | PSA
Hundreds of highly qualified and experienced AsureQuality meat inspectors could face the axe, with many forced to transfer to the private sector with lower wages and poorer conditions. More >>
Another 46 Jobs To Go At DIA With A Further 14 Under Threat
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 3:42 pm | PSA
The changes confirmed to staff at briefings today will see many roles merged, such as the Manager Digital Violent Extremism being merged with a Manager Digital Messaging and Systems, says Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi National ... More >>
Betrayal Of Women Over Pay Equity Laid Bare In Budget Poll - Time To Reverse Decision
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 9:00 am | PSA
"The Government decided to scrap pay equity for women to pay for tax cuts for business in this year’s budget - New Zealanders are seeing that plain and simple and they don’t like it," said Fleur Fitzsimons National Secretary Public Service Association ... More >>
All Workers Will Now Be Able To Be Fired At Will - The Govt Has No Shame
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 10:22 am | PSA
This is plainly and simply a fundamental erosion of workers’ rights to secure employment - the Minister is effectively giving employers the green light to fire workers at will," said Fleur Fitzsimons, National Secretary for the Public Service Association ... More >>
Private Health Contracts Advance Govt’s Health Privatisation Agenda
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 10:00 am | PSA
Stripping money out of the public health system to pay private, for-profit providers will not solve the Government’s underfunding of health, Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons says. More >>
Cancellation Of Health Charter A Giant Step Backwards For Health And Community Support Workers
Monday, 16 June 2025, 5:05 pm | PSA
The coalition continues to show us who and what they value. It’s very clear that they’re continuing to completely under-value the workers, and especially the women workers, who prop up the system to serve New Zealand whānau when they need it most. More >>
Māori Marginalised By Changes To Pae Ora Act
Monday, 16 June 2025, 2:18 pm | PSA
"These amendments strip away the very mechanisms Māori advocated for and were promised, particularly the ability to shape local service design and delivery through Iwi-Māori Partnership Boards IMPBs)," says Janice Panoho. More >>
War On Women Intensifies As Govt Takes Axe To Sick Leave For Part-Time Workers
Monday, 16 June 2025, 12:58 pm | PSA
This latest attack on women comes just six weeks after the Government ripped up the pay equity rules, depriving 150,000 women of the pay they deserve and making it harder to lodge claims in the future. More >>
ERA Releases Recommendations To Settle Te Roopu Taurima Dispute Due To Public Interest
Saturday, 14 June 2025, 12:46 pm | PSA
The ERA recommendations include reference to the current salary for kaitaataki (leaders in the houses providing residential disability support) not having increased for two years. It recommends an increase from $70,500 to $74,000 from 31 May 2025 and ... More >>
Govt Cuts Will Undermine Access To New Zealand’s History
Friday, 13 June 2025, 1:35 pm | PSA
The proposal to cut historians threatens the existence of Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand, which is a vital online resource for New Zealanders and a window to the rest of the world to learn about our rich history. More >>
