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Remarkable Maori Unionist to be honoured
Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 1:56 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association will today award Honorary Life Membership to PSA Kaumatua Kiwhare Mihaka. “Kiwhare has made a significant contribution to the New Zealand union movement through both the Council of Trade Unions and the PSA,” said PSA ... More >>
Figures show success in re-building public service
Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 1:23 pm | Public Service Association
New figures from the State Services Commission released today by State Services Minister Annette King at the PSA Congress in Wellington show the success of the necessary re-building of the public service. More >>
Admin health workers launch postcard campaign
Monday, 13 November 2006, 8:53 am | Public Service Association
Over eight hundred clerical and administration staff belonging to the PSA and working at four DHBs in the central North Island have launched a postcard campaign after rejecting a pay offer from their employer. More >>
TVNZ staff in for long haul: another strike
Friday, 10 November 2006, 9:44 am | Public Service Association
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and Public Service Association unionised workers at TVNZ are taking strike action from 8:55am this morning around the country. The action follows a vote by the workers to escalate the strike action and start ... More >>
TVNZ Union Members To Escalate Industrial Action
Friday, 10 November 2006, 8:32 am | Public Service Association
Union members from the PSA and the EPMU have voted to escalate industrial action at TVNZ, they have walked off the job for four hours from 9pm-1am tonight. More >>
External help sought to resolve health dispute
Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 9:39 am | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is seeking assistance from the Department of Labour’s mediation service in an attempt to resolve a pay dispute between 1300 clerical and administration staff at seven District Health Boards in the lower North Island. More >>
Lightning strikes disrupt flagship show twice
Sunday, 5 November 2006, 5:13 pm | PSA
TVNZ’s flagship six o’clock news was hit by lightning industrial action for the second time in two days after Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and Public Service Association unionised workers walked out at 4:10pm today and did not return ... More >>
Disability support staff deserve a better deal
Friday, 3 November 2006, 11:22 am | Public Service Association
“Disability support workers who are members of the Public Service Association and work for New Zealand Healthcare Group deserve a better pay deal than the poor increase of about 50 cents an hour currently on offer,” said Richard Wagstaff, PSA National ... More >>
Strike action at TVNZ underway
Monday, 30 October 2006, 8:18 am | Public Service Association
A strike by members of the Public Service Association and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is currently underway at TVNZ with some disruptions to programmes likely. More >>
More surprise strike action at TVNZ
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:19 am | Public Service Association
Further surprise strike action by members of the Public Service Association and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is underway at TVNZ with more disruptions to programmes likely. More >>
TVNZ offer rejected – action on high profile shows
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 4:09 pm | Public Service Association
Union members from the Public Service Association and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union have overwhelmingly rejected a revised pay offer from TVNZ and will start rolling industrial action targeted at high profile New Zealand-made programmes. More >>
Union members at TVNZ to walk off the job for hour
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 9:54 am | Public Service Association
Union members from the Public Service Association and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union at TVNZ will walk off the job for an hour tomorrow to discuss a revised pay offer from the state broadcaster and any further industrial action. More >>
Forty Hour Week Still Not A Reality - PSA
Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 3:24 pm | PSA
Forty hour week still not a reality in public sector 166 years after Parnell A forty hour working week is still not a reality in the public sector on Labour Day in 2006, 166 years after carpenter Samuel Parnell took a stand for the eight hour day in 1840. ... More >>
Bed, staff cuts not answer for Gisborne Hospital
Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 11:14 am | Public Service Association
“More funding from the Ministry of Health, not cuts in bed numbers or staffing levels is the answer to Gisborne Hospital’s financial troubles,” said Margaret Takoko, PSA Organiser responsible for Gisborne Hospital in response to a discussion ... More >>
Unions and TVNZ seek mediation
Friday, 20 October 2006, 10:15 am | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union will seek the assistance of the Department of Labour’s mediation service next Tuesday in an attempt to resolve the pay dispute between TVNZ and the unions. More >>
TVNZ faces rolling industrial action
Sunday, 15 October 2006, 2:17 pm | PSA
TVNZ staff voted today to begin a campaign of rolling industrial action involving more than 300 of the network’s employees. The action has the potential to disrupt many of the station’s highest profile shows, and comes after members of the PSA ... More >>
Politicians must respect A-G's independence
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 11:50 am | Public Service Association
Politicians must respect independence of Auditor-General says public servants’ union More >>
Surplus: Union call for accord on public services
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 10:18 am | Public Service Association
The union representing public service workers, the PSA, is today calling on the National and Labour parties to develop a bipartisan accord about investing in public services for New Zealand and New Zealanders. More >>
Twenty years too long for gender pay equality
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 2:18 pm | Public Service Association
“Twenty years is too long for women to wait to be paid at the same rate as men,” said Nanette Cormack, newly appointed Pay and Employment Equity Co-ordinator at the PSA commenting on figures released today by Statistics New Zealand. The figures show ... More >>
Improved public sector conditions good for workers
Tuesday, 3 October 2006, 6:11 pm | Public Service Association
“Figures released today showing the improved employment conditions in the public sector are good for workers and help ensure that New Zealand public services are of the highest quality,” said Brenda Pilott, National Secretary of the Public Service ... More >>
