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PSA calls for retention of state sector jobs
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 1:25 pm | PSA
For Immediate Use PSA calls for more effort to retain state sector jobs The Public Service Association has no information about 1500 public service jobs being earmarked to go. More >>
More expensive health restructuring concerns PSA
Monday, 17 August 2009, 12:57 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association remains concerned that the government is looking at yet another expensive and disruptive restructuring of the health sector. Health Minister Tony Ryall has released a report recommending 170 changes to the public health system. ... More >>
More health restructuring concerns PSA
Friday, 14 August 2009, 1:18 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is concerned that the government is to consider a major restructuring of the health system. Health Minister Tony Ryall has received a report that proposes establishing a national Health Board to oversee and fund district ... More >>
Govt ignores evidence against prison privatisation
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 3:18 pm | Public Service Association
“The government is pressing ahead with privatising prisons despite evidence showing private prisons cost more and deliver a reduced service,” says PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff. Today Finance Minister Bill English told the New Zealand Council ... More >>
Disability Support Worker Awareness Week
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 3:55 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association and the Service and Food Workers Union are working together to raise awareness of the work done by disability support workers. More >>
PSA pleased gov recognises need for more MSD staff
Friday, 7 August 2009, 3:44 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is pleased the government has acknowledged the workload for staff at the Ministry of Social Development is increasing as unemployment continues to rise. Social Development Minister Paula Bennett has announced the government is ... More >>
Corrections staff oppose prison privatisation
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 12:28 pm | PSA
Department of Corrections staff, including those who’ve worked in private prisons, have told the Public Service Association, that privatising prison management will have a negative impact on our prison system. More >>
PIP fund part of government’s privatisation agenda
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 9:32 am | Public Service Association
“The Public Infrastructure Partnership Fund established to build schools, hospitals, and prisons, is another part of the government’s privatisation agenda,” says PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff. “The PIP Fund is a public private partnership, ... More >>
PSA launches blog by union’s national secretaries
Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 4:43 pm | Public Service Association
PSA launches blog written by the union’s two national secretaries The Public Service Association is New Zealand’s largest union with more than 57,000 members working in the public sector including local government. Today we are launching a blog written ... More >>
7 things to improve public sector performance: PSA
Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 1:55 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association welcomes the opportunity to have a serious discussion with public sector employers and the government about improving the performance of the public sector. “We’ve produced a list of seven things needed to improve public ... More >>
Privatising services will not lift productivity
Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 9:14 am | Public Service Association
“Giving public sector workers greater freedom to respond to the needs of the public and to be more innovative will boost public sector productivity far more than privatising or contracting out public services,” says PSA national secretary Brenda Pilott. More >>
PSA supports ‘NZers Love Libraries’ campaign
Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 2:28 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association supports the ‘New Zealanders Love Libraries’ campaign launched by the Library and Information Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa (LIANZA).* LIANZA says the campaign is “to make sure libraries are not forgotten in any change ... More >>
More front-line public sector jobs being cut
Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 9:38 am | PSA
The Public Service Association is concerned that the number of public sector jobs being cut in the regions is rising. The National Library of New Zealand is cutting 14 jobs in its Services to Young New Zealanders section that provides library services ... More >>
Disability support workers gain historic victory
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 2:49 pm | PSA
Disability support workers are celebrating an historic legal victory in their battle to be paid at least the minimum wage for providing round-the-clock support for people with disabilities. More >>
Risks involved in cutting MAF Biosecurity jobs
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:44 am | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is concerned about the significant risks involved in cutting jobs at MAF Biosecurity, whose staff work on our borders protecting New Zealand’s multi-billion dollar agriculture sector from pests and diseases. MAF ... More >>
PSA welcomes focus on productivity
Friday, 3 July 2009, 4:05 pm | Public Service Association
“The Public Service Association welcomes the opportunity to have a serious discussion with the government about improving productivity in the public sector,” says PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff. More >>
MSD cutting jobs when unemployment rising
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 2:24 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is concerned that the Ministry of Social Development is cutting up to 200 jobs due to a cut in government funding, at a time when unemployment is rapidly rising... The Ministry has confirmed that under the restructuring 12 Child ... More >>
Public staff discouraged from attending rally
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 12:12 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is angry that the Department of Labour is actively discouraging staff from attending today’s lunchtime rally at Parliament to protest pay discrimination against women The Department of Labour has sent an email to its ... More >>
PSA files discrimination complaint against govt
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 9:39 am | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is claiming that the government’s scrapping of a pay equity Investigation, aimed at addressing a pay gap for social workers at Child Youth and Family, is a breach of the Human Rights Act. “We have filed a complaint ... More >>
Front line jobs cut at Ministry of Fisheries
Friday, 12 June 2009, 3:46 pm | Public Service Association
“Jobs being cut at the Fisheries Ministry take staff off the front-line and will make it harder to manage our $2 billion inshore fishing industry,” says Public Service Association assistant national secretary Jeff Osborne. The Ministry of Fisheries ... More >>
