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Probation Workers Walk Off The Job
Monday, 25 June 2001, 5:26 pm | Public Service Association
This morning PSA members in Nelson and Christchurch were suspended for taking lawful and limited industrial action in support of a new collective agreement. Community Probation workers all over NZ have today responded by walking off the job in support ... More >>
Probation Workers Serve Industrial Action Notice
Friday, 22 June 2001, 4:29 pm | Public Service Association
Community Probation Service workers represented by the PSA today served notice on the employer to take limited industrial action in support of a new Collective Employment Agreement. More >>
Rankin Petition
Wednesday, 20 June 2001, 5:38 pm | Public Service Association
After deliberately choosing not to get embroiled in this matter, the PSA is appalled to find that its members have been dragged into Christine Rankin's claim for damages against the Crown. More >>
PSA - Conference On Partnership
Wednesday, 20 June 2001, 9:32 am | Public Service Association
On 26/27th of June the PSA will hold a conference on Partnership in the Modern Public Service in the Discovery Room, James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor, The Terrace, Wellington. More >>
CYF's New Directions Gets It Right
Wednesday, 13 June 2001, 2:09 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA is delighted to see the Government has at last committed to addressing pay issues for social workers as part of Child, Youth and Family's New Directions. More >>
Time to act in mental health
Tuesday, 12 June 2001, 4:06 pm | Public Service Association
“Mental health services across New Zealand are at breaking point because of chronic overload and incapacity” says Richard Wagstaff, Public Service Association (PSA) national secretary. And capacity is decreasing because there are not enough staff ... More >>
Lack Of Extra Funding For Public Services
Friday, 25 May 2001, 3:47 pm | Public Service Association
"The PSA is disappointed little new funding has been provided across the board in the budget to rebuild run down public services," says PSA National Secretary Richard Wagstaff. More >>
TEC Needs Careful Consideration
Thursday, 24 May 2001, 3:35 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA, the union representing the staff of Skill New Zealand, reacted cautiously to the Government's decision to move the functions of Skill New Zealand into a Tertiary Education Commission. More >>
PSA Welcomes Extra Funding For CYF
Thursday, 24 May 2001, 3:10 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA is glad the government has put its money where its mouth is by boosting funding for Child Youth and Family, says PSA National Secretary Richard Wagstaff. More >>
Restructuring not the answer, says PSA
Thursday, 12 April 2001, 2:44 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA is disappointed with the announcement to re-merge the Ministry of Social Policy and the Department of Work and Income. "The decision has been rushed through without consultation or adequate thought", says PSA national secretary ... More >>
Super-Ministry ‘Floating’ Will Raise Fears - PSA
Thursday, 22 March 2001, 4:26 pm | Public Service Association
‘Any return to major restructuring in the public service sector would be completely counter productive,’ the PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff said today. More >>
Standards Board Objectives In Line With PSA
Monday, 12 March 2001, 11:33 am | Public Service Association
The PSA’s Partnership for Quality approach to a better quality state sector, with more valued employees and an improved delivery of services sits, very well alongside the objectives of the report from the State Sector Standards Board, the union says. More >>
Budget Money The ‘Real Test’– PSA
Thursday, 1 March 2001, 12:40 am | Public Service Association
The PSA - the union representing Child Youth and Family workers – today said the findings of Judge Mick Brown’s report presented a ‘logical and acceptable path to a better resourced department able to deliver a quality service.’ More >>
Unallocated Cases Show Need For Action - PSA
Friday, 23 February 2001, 11:40 am | Public Service Association
The new detail about the number of unallocated cases facing Child Youth and Family workers shows the ‘absolute necessity’ of building the capacity of the department, the PSA said this morning. More >>
Partnership Gets The ERO Pass Mark
Wednesday, 21 February 2001, 11:55 am | Public Service Association
A progressive partnership agreement between the Education Review Office and the union representing its staff, the PSA, is to be signed this afternoon - just days after the independent future of the school inspection agency was guaranteed in the Government ... More >>
Proper Resourcing Crucial To ERO Revamp - PSA
Wednesday, 14 February 2001, 2:00 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA, the union for Education Review Office staff, said today the ‘fresh direction proposed for the organisation must be properly resourced otherwise it will fail.’ More >>
Agencies' Role In CYFS Needs Careful Consideration
Tuesday, 13 February 2001, 4:40 pm | Public Service Association
The role volunteer welfare agencies are set to play in the Child Youth and Family Services needs to be clearly detailed and monitored, the PSA said today. More >>
PSA welcomes State’s ‘end of uncertainty’
Thursday, 8 February 2001, 5:52 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA, the union representing State Insurance workers, said today’s announcement of the company’s sale to NRMA insurance was ‘a welcome end to the uncertainty that has been hovering over State staff for a considerable time.’ More >>
Recognition of the demands on social workers welc
Monday, 5 February 2001, 1:21 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA said today it was keen to lessen the dangers front-line social workers face but equally was ‘glad there was, at long last, a clear and increasing recognition about the demands and reality of the work these people do.’ More >>
PSA ‘Buoyed’ By Govt Response On Performance Pay
Friday, 26 January 2001, 12:59 am | Public Service Association
The PSA today said it was buoyed by - and supportive of – comments by the State Services Minister, Trevor Mallard on performance pay in the public sector. More >>
