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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 >>
MSD Ignores Staff Fears About Safety, Confirms Security Guard Cuts
Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 10:48 am | PSA
"We warned in August it was a case of not if, but when another violent incident (tragedy at Ashburton) happens. Nothing MSD has done since changes that," said Fleur Fitzsimons, National Secretary, PSA Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. More >>
PM Is Right To Be Surprised - Real Pay Data, Not Job Ads, Shows Public Service Pay Up 1.3%, Inflation 4.1%
Monday, 21 September 2026, 2:40 pm | PSA
Christopher Luxon was caught out on Newstalk ZB this morning when Mike Hosking put the SEEK Advertised Salary Index to him, showing government advertised salaries up 10 percent in the past year. More >>
Community Groups, Rural Māori Communities Hit Hard By Brutal Govt Cuts To Funding Support Services
Thursday, 17 September 2026, 4:10 pm | PSA
The Community Operations team supports hundreds of community, iwi and hapū groups who rely on advisors to navigate Lottery Grants, central and local government funding, and philanthropic funds More >>
PSA Slams Racist, Last-Minute Changes To Local Government Bill
Wednesday, 16 September 2026, 12:51 pm | PSA
"Make no mistake, this change - made quietly and quickly without consultation as parliament wraps up for the term - is squarely targeted at tokenising mana whenua representation in local government." More >>
