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PSA Calls On Minister To Reverse Cold-hearted Cuts To Children’s Charity Funding
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 1:46 pm | PSA
Children’s charity Stand Tū Māia is today taking urgent legal action against Oranga Tamariki for unilaterally reneging on a three-year $21 million contract after only six months. More >>
PSA Calls For End Of Unlawful Lockout By Disability Support Provider
Friday, 6 December 2024, 10:51 am | PSA
"Lockouts are a heavy-handed tool used by desperate employers trying to force workers to accept unpalatable conditions. Taking this action is draconian," Public Service Association Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi acting National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons ... More >>
Research Shows Working From Home Improves Public Service Productivity
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 9:32 am | PSA
A survey of public service workers finds working from home improves productivity. 85% say it enabled them to get more work done. 78% say it improved performance of their employer. 85% work from home at least one day a week More >>
PSA Condemns Anti-worker Bargaining Tactics By Kaupapa Māori Disability Trust
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 5:50 pm | PSA
These proposals are a direct attack on the rights and livelihoods of workers in the disability sector-many of whom are women, Māori, Pasifika, and migrant workers, says Public Service Association Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi National Sector Lead More >>
Christchurch Airport Firefighters To Strike Over Poor Pay Offer
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 3:42 pm | PSA
The firefighters will refuse to carry out a range of duties over a 21-day period, beginning 8am Wednesday 18 December 2024 and ending 6pm Wednesday 8 January 2025. More >>
NZDF Poised To Axe More Civilian Roles As It Faces A $360m Blowout In Costs
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 8:31 am | PSA
NZDF told staff across its military and civilian workforce last week that it wants to cut $50m through its Workforce Savings Programme in the 2025/26 financial year as part of plans to tackle a $360m blowout in spending. More >>
Cuts To Māori And Pasifika Health Services Will Harm Communities
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 4:14 pm | PSA
The proposals to cut 246 roles comes as Health NZ undertakes major change following a government directive to cut health budgets. Just this week, this has already seen the potential loss of more than 1500 health roles, some of which have remained vacant. More >>
Govt Ignores Health Crisis, Plans To Axe 1500 Public Health Roles
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 12:09 pm | PSA
Cuts hit campaigns to keep Kiwi healthy and data support for health care More >>
NZDF Urged To End Strike With Fair Offer For Civilian Workers As Mediation Begins
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 2:57 pm | PSA
The PSA urges NZDF to revisit its refusal to budge before it inflicts lasting damage on the civilian workforce and the capability of our military. More >>
Public’s Access To Critical Historic Information Casualty Of Govt Cuts
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 3:13 pm | PSA
The plan announced to staff today could result in the net loss of 27 roles. This includes librarians, curators, archives advisors and other experienced staff who undertake a vital job maintaining New Zealand’s historic records collected by government ... More >>
Spending Cuts Need To Stop - PSA Urges Govt To Listen To Economists
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 8:44 am | PSA
The economists, drawn from universities, unions and the private sector, are calling on the Government to urgently revisit its fiscal policy stating the economic rationale for spending cuts and deferral of key infrastructure projects was ‘unclear’. More >>
Govt Axes Specialist Māori Body Advising Pharmac Without Consulting Māori
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 5:36 pm | PSA
"This is another sad indictment of the priority the National-led Government places on improving the health of Māori," said Fleur Fitzsimons, Assistant Secretary for Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi Public Service Association. More >>
Minister Using Extraordinary Power Shows Need For Fair Pay Offer At NZDF As Strike Continues
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 8:55 am | PSA
PSA members who are civilian workers escalated industrial action last week after NZDF refused to budge from a zero-pay rise offered during negotiations for a new collective agreement. More >>
Social Housing Cutbacks Confirmed As Govt Axes Another 310 Kāinga Ora Workers
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 3:45 pm | PSA
This makes a total of 551 roles lost since April 2024, or one in six workers across the country. A third of the workforce is in Auckland. More >>
Appalling Attack On Public Service Official By Minister Crosses The Line
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 10:51 am | PSA
"Publicly attacking a public servant for giving advice that you disagree with is unacceptable within our democratic system," said Kerry Davies, National Secretary for the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. More >>
Mental Health Workers Fear For Safety Of Patients After Police Withdrawal Of Support - PSA Survey
Monday, 4 November 2024, 8:42 am | PSA
"Mental health workers are saying loud and clear the implementation of the change is profoundly unsafe and that the risks of serious harm to them, the people in their care and the public are very high," said Ashok Shankar, Health Lead for Public Service ... More >>
Big Job Losses Coming As Govt Guts Te Arawhiti - Office For Māori Crown Relations
Friday, 1 November 2024, 1:15 pm | PSA
Te Arawhiti - the Office for Māori Crown Relations will focus on its legislative functions to progress settlements under Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act. Te Puni Kōkiri will take over the post Treaty settlement ... More >>
Industrial Action Escalates As NZDF Refuses To Budge On Zero Pay Rise
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 3:10 pm | PSA
This stubborn refusal to increase the zero-pay rise offer shows how little NZDF respects and values its civilian workers who like many are doing it tough in a cost-of-living crisis. More >>
Lives Of Workers At Risk From Latest WorkSafe Restructure Plan
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 1:11 pm | PSA
A range of roles are being cut - health specialists, advisors, researchers, evaluators and legal kaimahi who support WorkSafe inspectors and whose role is to educate businesses, provide assessment support to workplaces and protect workers from poor health and ... More >>
More Than 10,000 Workers Fight Back Against Government Cuts
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 4:01 pm | PSA
More than 6000 public servants, many PSA members, have lost their jobs under the government’s cuts. Fitzsimons said public servants including those in public health, public science and those protecting our borders have been impacted by the cuts. More >>
