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Toll On Public Service Coming Clearer As Redundancy Costs And Sick Leave Soar
Thursday, 10 October 2024, 4:52 pm | PSA
The data shows taxpayers shelled out $48.8m in redundancy payments for 865 workers, driven by cuts at MBIE, Social Development, Statistics NZ and across the public service. This is the highest payout since 2010 when the last National-led government down-sized ... More >>
Devastating Cuts To Whaakata Māori And Māori Teacher Training Funding
Friday, 27 September 2024, 2:26 pm | PSA
The loss of $30 million to fund Māori Teachers training and $10.3 million in time-locked funding, provided by the previous government, will have serious consequences for the future of Māori broadcasting and education. More >>
Govt Turns Back On Social Housing, Prepares To Axe 300 Kāinga Ora Workers
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 4:15 pm | PSA
Staff were informed of the proposed change today making crystal clear the Government’s plans to downsize the state’s role in providing housing for low-income families. Kāinga Ora told staff that the ‘Government has asked us to deliver housing in ... More >>
Govt Blind To Risks As Science Cuts Leave Kiwis More Vulnerable To Natural Disasters
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 8:16 am | PSA
"The Government is wilfully blind to the damage its attack on science is wreaking on our ability to be prepared for future earthquakes or tsunamis," said Duane Leo, National Secretary for the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. More >>
PSA Strongly Opposes Any Clawback On Flexible Work Arrangements
Monday, 23 September 2024, 4:37 pm | PSA
The directive from Public Service Minister Nicola Willis to reduce numbers of people working from home is just a scapegoat for the real problem which is of the Government’s own making. More >>
Further Frontline Job Cuts At NZDF Threatens New Zealand’s Security
Friday, 20 September 2024, 9:12 am | PSA
"There is nothing more frontline than the defence of the nation, so this decision is just more evidence of the Government’s reckless and short-sighted approach to cost cutting," said Duane Leo, National Secretary for Public Service Association ... More >>
Library Workers Call For Councils To Come To The Table To Close Illegal Pay Gap
Thursday, 19 September 2024, 12:14 pm | PSA
The PSA and the councils worked together to assess whether the workers’ roles were undervalued, following the process set out in the Equal Pay Amendment Act. More >>
Industrial Action Looms As NZDF Refuses Pay Rise For Civilian Workers
Monday, 16 September 2024, 3:34 pm | PSA
The zero wage increase NZDF tabled in bargaining is insulting to all civilian workers, so our members are left with no choice but show the depth of their feelings by taking this action. More >>
Health Workers At Pacific Radiology To Strike Against Regional Pay Rates
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:04 am | PSA
MRI technologists and sonographers at Pacific Radiology will strike on 10th September over regional pay disparities amid ongoing contract negotiations. More >>
Govt Cuts Mean Salvation Army Frontline Workers Face Axe
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 10:51 pm | PSA
The change proposal covers workers in Auckland (Glenfield, Manukau, Royal Oak and Waitakere), Tauranga, Hamilton, Hutt City and Palmerston North. More >>
PSA Saddened At Passing Of Kiingi Pootatau Te Wherowhero Te Tuawhitu
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 12:11 am | PSA
The Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi extends its condolences to the Kiingitanga and Te whare ariki at this time of great sadness with the passing of Kiingi Pootatau Te Wherowhero Te Tuawhitu. More >>
Striking Social Service And Support Workers To Rally For Decent Wages
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 12:06 am | PSA
Union members are calling for a 5% increase for all members to keep up with the cost of living. This is their second strike in three weeks, after eight months of negotiations led to Visionwest offering meagre pay increases ranging from 0% to 2.6%. More >>
Needs Not Race Directive Threatens Progress We’ve Made As Country
Friday, 13 September 2024, 3:24 pm | PSA
The Government has taken a decision based on ideology which fundamentally impacts Māori without consulting Māori. There’s a clear pattern here of a government again setting out to divide New Zealand. No-one voted for that. More >>
Te Whatu Ora Voluntary Redundancies Continue Govt’s Slash And Burn Approach To Public Healthcare
Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 11:42 am | PSA
Unfocused, wide ranging voluntary redundancies at Te Whatu Ora will further destabilise public health to meet Government imposed spending cuts, the PSA says. More >>
Govt Cuts Frontline White Collar Crime Fighters At Serious Fraud Office
Tuesday, 27 August 2024, 4:43 pm | PSA
The ‘tough on crime’ Government is forcing the Serious Fraud Office to cut funding and jobs, undermining the ability of the office to keep fighting white collar crime which impacts thousands of New Zealanders every year. More >>
Unions Reject Flawed Care And Support Pay Equity Review Outcome As A Distraction
Thursday, 22 August 2024, 4:17 pm | PSA
Unions representing care and support workers flatly reject the pay equity methodology report released by Te Whatu Ora. More >>
Short-sighted Decision To Put Wellbeing Of Communities On Backburner
Wednesday, 21 August 2024, 6:08 pm | PSA
Once again, the Government is over-riding the interests of the very people its policies impact. It’s reckless, rushed and poorly thought through just as it is doing by undermining the public services New Zealanders need everyday. More >>
Workers At Major Social Housing And Social Service Provider To Strike For Fair Pay
Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 1:16 pm | PSA
Strike action comes after eight months of negotiations leading to Visionwest offering a meagre pay increases ranging from 0% for some to 2.6% for others. Members of the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi say their pay is putting ... More >>
PSA And Oranga Tamariki Settle Legal Action Against Job Cuts
Friday, 16 August 2024, 11:36 am | PSA
The PSA and Oranga Tamariki have signed an agreement ending proceedings taken by the union in the Employment Relations Authority (ERA). More >>
Government Ignores Voice Of Disabled Community And Downsizes Whaikaha
Thursday, 15 August 2024, 12:28 pm | PSA
Officials told the last government a single agency was ‘the best organisational structure to lead the realisation of a true partnership between the disability community and government to achieve ongoing transformation of the disability system.’ More >>
