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Care And Support Workers Deliver Open Letter Signed By 9,100 People Calling For Full And Fair Pay Equity Now
Friday, 8 March 2024, 10:57 am | PSA
Delegates from the three unions representing care and support workers are today - on International Women’s Day - delivering an open letter to the head of Te Whatu Ora demanding urgent action on their pay equity claim. "There are 65,000 care ... More >>
CTU Makes Strong Case For More, Not Less Investment In Public Services
Friday, 8 March 2024, 9:53 am | Public Service Association
The PSA is urging the Government to heed new analysis by the Council of Trade Unions (CTU) that shows government investment in public services risks falling short of population growth over the next four years . "The failure to invest enough, ... More >>
Petrol Excise Tax Hike Will Hit Care & Support Workers Hard - Time For Updated Pay Equity Settlement
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 12:02 pm | PSA
Care & support workers who use their own car to visit clients are calling for action on their pay equity claim before the rise in fuel excise tax hits their pay packets. "The Government promised a laser focus on cost of living but increasing ... More >>
ACC Deep Cuts Could Mean Injured People Forced To Return To Work Too Soon
Friday, 1 March 2024, 9:57 am | PSA
New Zealanders should worry that ACC is being forced to cut spending and possibly jobs which could lead to injured people being forced to return to work before they are ready. ACC’s 4000 workers, 72% of whom are women, were told this week that ... More >>
Government’s Te Aka Whai Ora Urgency Move A Travesty Of Democracy
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 5:59 pm | PSA
The Government’s decision to ram legislation abolishing Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority, through the House under urgency is a travesty of democracy and an insult to te Tiriti o Waitangi. PSA Te Kaihautū Māori Janice Panoho says the ... More >>
More Than 180 Personal Grievances Claims Lodged Against NIWA For Discrimination
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 3:41 pm | PSA
More than 180 PSA members have today lodged Personal Grievance claims against NIWA claiming they are being discriminated against because they are union members. PSA members, who are bargaining for a new Collective Agreement, have been denied access ... More >>
Tribunal Hearing On Te Aka Whai Ora Must Go Ahead
Friday, 23 February 2024, 5:34 pm | PSA
Bypassing a Waitangi Tribunal hearing that challenges the closure of Te Aka Whai Ora and its work would show a lack of credibility and accountability from the Government, said the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi. Stuff reports ... More >>
Border Security At Risk With Plans To Cut Staff At Customs
Friday, 23 February 2024, 11:04 am | Public Service Association
The Government’s plan to encourage workers at Customs to take voluntary redundancy puts at risk the vital work of the agency, facilitating a safe and smooth entry and exit through our border, supporting our exports, and keeping New Zealanders safe ... More >>
Government’s Blunt Approach To Public Service Cuts Laid Bare In Last Productivity Commission Report
Tuesday, 20 February 2024, 11:48 am | Public Service Association
As it embarks on a deep and widespread attack on the public service, the Government should heed warnings in the last Productivity Commission report about the impacts of layoffs on workers and families. The report deals with the impacts of economic ... More >>
Deadline Looms For Plans To Cut Public Services For New Zealanders
Wednesday, 14 February 2024, 2:47 pm | PSA
Savings plans ordered by the Government to fund tax cuts are due to be filed with the relevant Ministers any day now, bringing closer likely cuts to public services. "Without doubt, the scale and breadth of the cuts demanded by the Government ... More >>
Nicola Willis Urged To Heed Sensible Advice Of The Public Service Commission
Thursday, 1 February 2024, 5:26 pm | Public Service Association
The body which oversees our Public Service has advised the Minister for the Public Service not to use blunt instruments to reduce expenditure if it wants to avoid impacting essential public services. In its briefing to the Minister Nicola Willis, the Te ... More >>
Wider And Deeper Cuts To Public Services On Cards As Government Scrambles To Fund Tax Cuts
Wednesday, 24 January 2024, 1:38 pm | PSA
Public services relied on by New Zealanders are at risk as the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon comes clean and reveals the true extent of the Government’s plans to cut public services. In the election campaign National identified 24 government departments ... More >>
Mini-Budget Just Creates More Uncertainty For Public Service Workers
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 3:01 pm | Public Service Association
Today’s much vaunted mini-Budget provides little clarity for thousands of public service workers who now go into the Christmas break with no further understanding of their futures or how services they provide New Zealanders will be cut. The Government ... More >>
PSA Says Abandoning Tax Principles Retrograde Step
Tuesday, 19 December 2023, 11:21 pm | Public Service Association
Scrapping taxation principles reporting is an attack on transparency and accountability, as well as undermining of the role of the public service in informing the public debate on a crucial issue for the future of New Zealand, says the PSA. The Public ... More >>
Weather Forecasters And Others At NIWA Take Strike Action
Monday, 11 December 2023, 4:23 pm | PSA
Climate scientists and technicians including, marine and freshwater biologists, geologists, ocean ecologists and other support staff at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have gone on strike to push for an improved ... More >>
Statistics NZ Accepts Restructure Process Flawed, But Presses Ahead With Job Cuts
Monday, 11 December 2023, 11:20 am | PSA
The PSA is disappointed Statistics NZ is pressing ahead with a restructure that will result in the loss of 28 jobs. "This will be a shock to many workers and their whānau this close to Christmas and our hearts go out to them - this was not ... More >>
Workers At Radio New Zealand Warn Of Industrial Action Over Pay Claim
Friday, 8 December 2023, 3:29 pm | PSA
The failure of RNZ management to agree to a pay rise which fairly reflects the rising cost of living could see workers at RNZ take industrial action warns the PSA and E tū. Workers are pushing for a 7% rise while RNZ is offering 5.5%. "Workers ... More >>
Nicola Willis Threat To Back Track On Te Reo Allowances Will Be Strongly Resisted
Wednesday, 6 December 2023, 10:11 am | PSA
The PSA is deeply disappointed by the threat from new Public Services Minister Nicola Willis to remove allowances recognising competency in Te Reo across the public sector. "We will resist any backtracking on the progress we have made in recognising ... More >>
Early Christmas Gift For Landlords As Government Looks To Axe Workers
Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 9:34 am | Public Service Association
Deeper and more savage cuts to public services could be on the table following revelations of the ballooning cost of tax cuts for landlords. "The Government has made a clear choice to fund the lifestyles of landlords at the expense of a strong public ... More >>
Coalition Agreement Threatens Services New Zealanders Rely On And Risks Racial Division
Friday, 24 November 2023, 2:07 pm | PSA
The incoming Government’s coalition agreements are a blueprint for slashing the public and community services New Zealanders rely on and risk setting back race relations. "The plans unveiled today represent an attack on public and community services, ... More >>
