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Review Of Aged Care Must Invest In Home Support Workers, The PSA Says
Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 8:26 am | PSA
Woolley said the Home Support sector is an essential but under-represented part of the solution to enable older people to live at home longer, says Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi Assistant Secretary Melissa Woolley. More >>
Proposed Cuts To Specialist Prevention ACC Staff Will Cause More Sexual Violence And Injuries - PSA
Friday, 24 October 2025, 12:29 pm | PSA
"We strongly oppose cutting specialist prevention workers at ACC, it will cause harm and cost us all more in the long run," Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi National Secretary, Fleur Fitzsimons, says. More >>
Strikes Should Be Wake-Up Call And Turning Point For Government
Friday, 24 October 2025, 9:34 am | PSA
The Government should be directing Health New Zealand that formal offers with improvements that ensure safe staffing and a pay offer that keeps pace with the increased cost of living need to be made. More >>
Strikes On, Some Rallies Shift Indoors, Some Cancelled Because Of Weather
Wednesday, 22 October 2025, 2:49 pm | PSA
Tomorrow health and ACC workers say loud and clear the time to value us is now More >>
More Than 1200 ACC Workers Join Other Health Workers In Striking Thursday
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 10:21 am | PSA
More than 1200 workers from across ACC will strike from 6am to 8pm after the failure of the Government to provide a meaningful offer and ongoing concerns over workplace culture. More >>
PSA Backs Plan To Stop State Asset Sales
Monday, 20 October 2025, 2:07 pm | PSA
The PSA calls on all other political parties to draw a line in the sand once and for all and commit to no more state asset sales. More >>
Stop With The Politics And Threats - PSA Responds To Judith Collins ‘Open Letter’
Sunday, 19 October 2025, 2:21 pm | PSA
It’s a problem of their own making and now the Government is blaming unions and making reckless threats to change the law and take away workers’ fundamental right to strike, said Fleur Fitzsimons. More >>
Govt. Attack On Right To Strike Threatens Fundamental Workplace Protections
Friday, 17 October 2025, 4:07 pm | PSA
The right to withdraw labour is a fundamental protection for working people, without it, the power imbalance between employers and workers is dangerously skewed, said Fleur Fitzsimons. More >>
Science Funding Change Raises Fresh Concerns About Jobs And Research Independence
Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 2:43 pm | PSA
The PSA is particularly concerned about staff at the Royal Society Te Apārangi, which currently administers the Marsden Fund independently from government. More >>
PM’s Attack On Unions Over Strikes Won’t Help Settle Industrial Disputes
Monday, 13 October 2025, 3:04 pm | PSA
Unions are not the villain in the piece here as he is trying to make out. It's his government that had made poor choices, rushing to give away $20 billion in tax cuts for landlords, big tobacco, higher income kiwis and business. More >>
PSA Slams Minister For Crowing Over Making Experienced Public Service Workers Redundant
Thursday, 9 October 2025, 4:21 pm | PSA
Public Service Minister Judith Collins is applauding the latest public service workforce data showing her government has cut 1533 people from jobs in the past year, at a cost of $80.4m. More >>
Poll Shows Pay Equity Attack Will Cost Government Votes And Possibly The Beehive
Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 8:43 am | PSA
The poll shows a net 159,860 of the coalition parties’ 2023 voters would be likely to change their party vote to parties in opposition to the rushed scrapping of pay equity claims and the new framework that makes it harder to lodge new claims. More >>
Critical IT Workers And Others Keeping Health System Running Vote To Strike For The First Time
Wednesday, 8 October 2025, 8:16 am | PSA
Some 1700 PSA members of the Policy, Advisory, Knowledge and Specialist Workers Collective (PAKS) have voted overwhelmingly to strike for four hours on 23 October from 11am to 3pm. More >>
Cuts To Alcohol Harm Prevention Team Exposes Influence Of Alcohol Industry
Monday, 6 October 2025, 8:55 am | PSA
Health NZ Te Whatu Ora is proposing to cut its specialist Alcohol Harm Prevention team by a third, reducing it from 15 to 10 roles. This includes axing the Māori and Pacific advisor roles. More >>
West Coast Home Care Support Workers To Strike On October 23
Monday, 6 October 2025, 8:39 am | PSA
The strike will run from noon to 2pm on Thursday 23 October and these workers will also hold two-hour stop work meetings in Greymouth, Hokitika and Westport on Monday 13 October. More >>
Mental Health Workers Say They’ve Had Enough - Vote To Strike On 23 October
Friday, 3 October 2025, 10:29 am | PSA
PSA delegate and community mental health nurse Monique Larsen said the strike action is as much for patients and their families as it is for frontline workers. More >>
11,500 Essential Health Workers Vote To Strike On 23 October
Thursday, 2 October 2025, 11:04 am | PSA
PSA vice-president and occupational therapist Dianna Mancer says the industrial action is just as much about patients as it is workers. More >>
Government Funding Cuts Force Job Losses At Trusted RNZ
Wednesday, 1 October 2025, 4:46 pm | PSA
The PSA is deeply concerned about the ongoing stability of roles at RNZ. How many more cuts can this essential public service sustain before New Zealanders lose access to the independent, trusted journalism they deserve? More >>
Pay Rise For 800 Auckland Council Library Workers A Step Towards Pay Equity
Monday, 29 September 2025, 8:59 am | PSA
Around 800 library workers - librarians, library assistants and those in specialist roles - will receive a pay rise backdated from 1 September. More >>
Culture Shift Critical To Ensuring Speaking Up Culture In Public Service
Friday, 26 September 2025, 9:38 am | PSA
The PSA wants to work with agencies to ensure policies and practices are robust, fair and include the right to natural justice. We need to get this right. More >>
