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PSA CEO's Earn Less Than Corporate CEO's
Thursday, 18 October 2007, 2:19 pm | Public Service Association
“Public service chief executives may be earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but their counterparts in the private sector are earning millions of dollars,” says PSA National Secretary Brenda Pilott. More >>
Statistics NZ Staff Hold More Rallies
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 9:49 am | Public Service Association
Staff at Statistics NZ are holding further rallies as part of their industrial action for the right to negotiate their pay. More >>
Statistics NZ Staff Hold More Rallies
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 9:45 am | PSA
Staff at Statistics NZ are holding further rallies as part of their industrial action for the right to negotiate their pay. More >>
Statistics NZ Staff Step Up Industrial Action
Sunday, 14 October 2007, 12:19 am | PSA
More than 540 staff at Statistics NZ, who belong to the PSA, are stepping up their industrial action. More >>
NZ's Public Service Is Least Corrupt
Thursday, 11 October 2007, 2:35 pm | PSA
The PSA says a survey assessing the integrity of New Zealand's state sector workers confirms their ranking as the least corrupt in the world but does show the need to improve some aspects of workplace behaviour. More >>
Statistics Staff Attend Rallies As Part Of Action
Friday, 5 October 2007, 12:06 am | Public Service Association
More than 170 staff at Statistics NZ took part in lunchtime rallies and other activities today. More >>
PSA Calls For Transparent Funding Of Parties
Thursday, 27 September 2007, 3:54 pm | Public Service Association
The country’s largest union, the PSA, says the funding of political parties needs to be more transparent. More >>
Which Assets Would National Partially Privatise?
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 3:35 pm | Public Service Association
“National needs to come clean and tell the country which state owned assets it would partially privatise,” says Brenda Pilott, National Secretary of the PSA which represents 55,000 workers employed in the state sector and local government. More >>
Cutting Council Staff Sells Communities Short
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 11:59 am | Public Service Association
“Candidates in the local government elections that promote cuts in council staff are selling their communities short,” says, Brenda Pilott, National Secretary of the PSA, which represents 5000 local government workers. More >>
PSA Highlighting Importance Of Local Elections
Tuesday, 4 September 2007, 10:43 am | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is launching a campaign to highlight the importance of voting in the local government and district health board elections. More >>
PSA Disappointed Over Election Protocols
Saturday, 1 September 2007, 1:35 pm | PSA
The PSA is disappointed that the Waitakere City Council is misrepresenting what occurred today regarding the council amending its election protocols. More >>
Council Drops Threat To Sack Staff
Friday, 31 August 2007, 4:49 pm | PSA
The PSA is pleased that Waitakere City Council has withdrawn a threat to sack staff who get involved in public election meetings in which only one candidate for the Waitakere council is speaking. More >>
Waitakere Threat Of Sack For Election Activity
Friday, 31 August 2007, 1:19 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA is alarmed that Waitakere City Council has warned its staff they may be sacked if they attend a public election meeting in which only one candidate for the Waitakere council is speaking. More >>
Creation of New State Owned Enterprise
Friday, 31 August 2007, 9:44 am | PSA
The PSA says the creation of the new state owned enterprise, AsureQuality, is a positive move for the workforce and for New Zealand. More >>
PSA Not Surprised Investigation Clears Immigration
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 9:45 am | Public Service Association
“The PSA is not surprised that an independent investigation has shown that an allegation of corruption at the Immigration Service has proven to be completely false,” says Richard Wagstaff, National Secretary of the PSA, the union which represents staff ... More >>
Report Shows Staff Costs Not Responsible
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 9:32 am | Public Service Association
“The rates review report clearly shows that local government staff costs are not responsible for the rise in rates that sparked the inquiry,” says Brenda Pilott, National Secretary of the PSA, which represents 5000 local government workers. More >>
Process, Outcome In Troop Transport Case Pleases
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 4:08 pm | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is pleased with the way Foreign Affairs Minister, Winston Peters, has handled his investigation into his Ministry's actions concerning the transport of Australian military personnel to the Middle East by Air New Zealand. More >>
PSA Concerned At Rush To Blame Public Service
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 11:15 am | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association is concerned that there's been a rush to blame the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Air New Zealand flying Australian military personnel to the Middle East, where they may have ended up in Iraq. More >>
PSA Opposes Sacking of TVNZ Security Guard
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 12:34 am | Public Service Association
The Public Service Association supports the Engineering and Manufacturing Union in its efforts to have a sacked TVNZ security guard reinstated. Louis Rawnsley, who is a member of the EPMU, has worked as a security guard for the state broadcaster ... More >>
PSA Welcomes SSC’s Investigation of Setchell Case
Thursday, 2 August 2007, 5:33 pm | Public Service Association
The PSA welcomes the State Services Commissioner’s investigation of the issues raised by the Madeleine Setchell case. The Commissioner, Mark Prebble, announced today that he would look at the management of actual or perceived conflicts of interest ... More >>
