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Unified Health System An Opportunity To Invest In Undervalued Workers And Communities
Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 6:24 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association welcomes the Health and Disability System Review, which signals a shift of direction for the sector with benefits for health workers and the wider community. The report released today calls for an end to the fragmentation ... More >>
Air Safety Experts Deserve A Safe Workplace: Systemic Reform Urgently Needed
Thursday, 21 May 2020, 12:16 pm | PSA
The people who work in our Civil Aviation Authority and our Aviation Security Service are tasked with keeping New Zealanders safe when we fly, but the Ministerial Review released today lays out in disturbing detail how a toxic culture of bullying and ... More >>
PSA To Closely Monitor Auckland Council Voluntary Pay Cut Proposal
Tuesday, 19 May 2020, 4:54 pm | PSA
Auckland Council staff earning over $100,000 a year have been asked to take voluntary pay cuts of between 5% and 10%, as part of a process the Public Service Association says it will monitor closely. The union for council workers says it never welcomes ... More >>
Budget Supports Public Services And Rejects Austerity
Friday, 15 May 2020, 10:11 am | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association welcomes the Labour-led government’s 2020 budget, noting its commitment to job creation and the maintenance of crucial public and community services. "These are terribly difficult and uncertain times, and any move toward ... More >>
Invercargill City Council Pay Cuts Dispute Resolved
Wednesday, 6 May 2020, 6:36 pm | Public Service Association
"The question of pay reduction for PSA members at Invercargill City Council has been resolved. There will be no pay cuts imposed, and there will be no changes to PSA members' employment terms and conditions without union agreement," says ... More >>
Mayor Shadbolt, Invercargill City Councillors Urged To Protect Local Workers’ Welfare
Thursday, 30 April 2020, 1:30 pm | PSA
Media release issued on behalf of Unions Southland. Working people in Southland are horrified to learn ICC Chief Executive Clare Hadley intends to slash the pay of her employees by up to fifty percent. Hadley has declared only those council staff ... More >>
Invercargill City Council Wage Cuts Cruel, Unnecessary And Legally Questionable
Thursday, 30 April 2020, 8:17 am | PSA
Staff at Invercargill City Council are shocked and upset following an announcement by Chief Executive Clare Hadley that the Council intends to slash their pay by up to 50%. Hadley announced her intention to implement aggressive wage cuts in a newsletter ... More >>
Now More Than Ever, Undervalued Admin Workers Deserve Pay And Respect
Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 1:07 pm | Public Service Association
Our hospitals, courts, government departments and local councils can’t function without admin workers, so when will they get the pay and respect they deserve? Public Service Association members around NZ are asking this question as we today celebrate ... More >>
PSA Cautiously Welcomes PPE Review: "We Need Gloves, Not Promises"
Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 4:05 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association supports the decision to independently review PPE distribution and supply, but the union says health workers are sick and tired of empty promises. "We have repeatedly been promised PPE. Our members have repeatedly ... More >>
"Our People Matter": Telling The Stories Of Our Essential Workers
Monday, 20 April 2020, 2:43 pm | Public Service Association
Essential workers in the public sector are on the front line of the battle against covid-19, and their efforts keep us all safe. Thousands of members of the Public Service Association have continued to work through lockdown, in order to ensure society ... More >>
Home Support Workers Are On The Front Line, So Why Haven’t They Been Paid?
Friday, 10 April 2020, 5:15 pm | Public Service Association
Despite guaranteed government funding and subsidy schemes such as essential service leave, the largest employers in New Zealand’s home support sector have this week either not paid or vastly underpaid many home support workers, or forced them into More >>
Unless Changed, MoH Guidelines Treat Community Support Workers As Expendable
Tuesday, 31 March 2020, 10:34 am | Public Service Association
The Public Service Associations says its members are receiving contradictory messages from the Ministry of Health that put at risk their lives and those of their clients. Home support workers were told on Monday afternoon by Dr Ashley Bloomfield that they ... More >>
Home Support Workers May Refuse Unsafe Work If PPE Not Provided
Sunday, 29 March 2020, 4:06 pm | PSA
Home support workers say they are scared to go to work because without adequate supplies of personal protective equipment they risk spreading Covid-19 to their clients. The Public Service Association represents workers in the sector, and while the union ... More >>
PSA Welcomes Govt Economic Package, Calls On Employers To Commit To Its Implementation
Tuesday, 17 March 2020, 7:04 pm | PSA
The Public Service Association welcomes the government’s $12.1 billion economic package, and calls on all employers to ensure workers affected by Covid-19 continue to receive full pay. "In any crisis we hear talk of tightening our belts and ... More >>
HealthCare NZ Makes Concessions, But Remains Committed To Harmful Job Cuts
Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 5:00 pm | PSA
After weeks of protest nationwide by Public Service Association members, clients and families, the company has reduced the number of regional jobs it will cut but confirmed it will go ahead with most. The privately owned, publicly funded company ... More >>
Proposed Bonfire Of Regulations Will Burn Ordinary New Zealanders
Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 7:58 am | PSA
National Party leader Simon Bridges has proposed a ‘bonfire of regulations’, but the Public Service Association says it’s a smokescreen for an ideologically motivated agenda divorced from facts on the ground. "New Zealand has one of ... More >>
Strong, Well-funded Public Services Will Keep New Zealand Safe
Thursday, 5 March 2020, 9:19 am | PSA
With Public Service Association members in the health sector, customs, immigration and elsewhere ready to tackle the coronavirus threat, the union says this crisis illustrates the need for properly funded public and community services. The National ... More >>
PSA Welcomes Increased Government Funding For Homeless Support
Friday, 14 February 2020, 3:33 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association welcomes the government’s announcement it will invest $300 million in transitional housing, and says union members will want to make the plan a success. The campaign for housing justice is a key priority of the ... More >>
PSA Welcomes Decision To Keep Concert On FM, Calls For Jobs To Be Protected
Tuesday, 11 February 2020, 3:18 pm | Public Service Association
PSA welcomes decision to keep Concert on FM, calls for jobs to be protected While the decision to keep RNZ Concert playing on FM has been welcomed by staff, they are in no mood to celebrate yet with 18 workers still set to lose their jobs. ... More >>
HealthCare NZ workers protest job cuts in Hamilton today
Friday, 7 February 2020, 10:17 am | Public Service Association
Hamilton members and supporters of the Public Service Association will protest today against the proposal by HealthCare NZ to disestablish 200 jobs in regions around the country, and instead centralise services in Auckland. More >>
