Aotearoa’s public and community services union. 90,000 members strong. Authorised by Kerry Davies, Public Service Association, 11 Aurora Terrace, Wellington.
On #InternationalWorkersDay, UNI Global Union stands with Access Community Health workers in Aotearoa striking for fair pay & respect. Essential care can’t be built on poverty wages & broken promises. Solidarity today & every day!
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Constructive meeting this morning, in my role as Minister for the Public Service, with the PSA Union. There will be things we will disagree on but our conversation this morning was both engaging and mutually respectful. @FleurFitzsimons
Nicola Willis at IPANZ: public servants, give us your best ideas. That’s what we’ve been doing for govt's of all stripes for 112 years but slashing 6,000 jobs over the last year and flirting with privatisation isn't the way to foster innovation and encourage creative thinking.
PSA library worker members are angry at the latest delay to their bargaining for a pay equity settlement, despite employers already recognising that they are underpaying the workers because of illegal gender-based discrimination. Read the full release: psa.org.nz/our-voice/library…
ALT The image is a purple-tinted photo of a library trolley filled with books. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in white. Beneath is the headline “Library workers call for councils to come to the table to close illegal pay gap” in large white text. A white PSA logo is in the top right.
PSA members are taking industrial action following the refusal of the NZ Defence Force to lift pay for civilian workers during bargaining for a new collective agreement. Read the full media release: bit.ly/3XKYuWA
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The Government is putting at risk all the progress that is being made to improve the lives of Māori with its latest directive to all government agencies.
Read the full media release: psa.org.nz/our-voice/needs-n…
ALT The image is of the Waitangi Flagstaff. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in yellow. A red PSA logo is in the top right. Across the bottom left is the headline “"Needs not race" directive threatens progress we’ve made as country” in large yellow text.
127 MRI technologists, sonographers, administrators, and others at Pacific Radiology will strike on Tuesday 10th September from 10am to 12pm.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/47qI2hC
ALT The image is a blurred photo of the interior of a radiology suite. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in yellow. A red PSA logo is in the top right. Above to the left is the headline “Health workers at Pacific Radiology to strike against regional pay rates” in large yellow text.
Government funding cuts are forcing the Salvation Army to propose axing a range of roles including social workers, navigators and other frontline positions which deal with highly complex cases across the North Island.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/3XcpFIf
ALT The Image is a black and white close-up photo of the top of The Beehive and parliament. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the bottom left-hand corner in yellow. A red PSA logo is in the bottom right. Above to the left is the headline “Govt cuts mean Salvation Army frontline workers face axe” in large yellow text.
The Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi extends its condolences to the Kiingitanga and Te whare ariki at this time of great sadness with the passing of Kiingi Pootatau Te Wherowhero Te Tuawhitu. bit.ly/3T9hbAt
ALT Image is a black background with the statement “Aotearoa has lost a great and wise leader” in large white text. In the bottom left corner under a line in small white text is the statement attribution ‘PSA Te Kaihautū Māori Janice Panoho’. In the bottom right corner is the red Manaia logo.
Unfocused, wide ranging voluntary redundancies at Te Whatu Ora will further destabilise public health to meet Government imposed spending cuts.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/3APSkeI
ALT The Image is of a hospital corridor with a lift at the far end: There are blurred, nearly transparent figures of medical staff moving down the corridor. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in orange. A red PSA logo is in the top right. Beneath is the headline “Te Whatu Ora voluntary redundancies continue Govt’s slash and burn approach to public healthcare” in large orange text.
The ‘tough on crime’ Government is forcing the Serious Fraud Office to cut funding and jobs, undermining the ability of the office to keep fighting white collar crime which impacts thousands of New Zealanders every year.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/3MlsOAu
ALT The Image is an aerial view of a person sitting in the dark on a computer, only the hands and the computer keyboard are visible, everything else is in darkness. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in yellow. A red PSA logo is in the top right. Beneath is the headline “Govt cuts frontline white collar crime fighters at Serious Fraud Office” in large yellow text.
Workers in Auckland Council’s pools and leisure centres are celebrating their successful campaign against privatising management of pools and leisure centres.
Read the full media release: psa.org.nz/our-voice/workers…
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“Auckland: Pools and leisure centres will stay under public control.”
Solving the housing crisis facing many Māori whānau will be that much harder with Kāinga Ora proposing to more than halve the specialist team focused on supporting the housing dreams of Māori.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/3WpIFmt
ALT The Image is the top story of a weatherboard house, with the windows and orange roof visible. There is blue sky and part of the top of a tree in the background. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in yellow. A red PSA logo is in the top right. Beneath is the headline “Govt’s war on science ramps up - big cuts planned for GNS Science” in large yellow text.
GNS Science is proposing to cut more than 10% of its workforce undermining its critical work helping New Zealand adapt to climate change and manage natural hazards and risks from earthquakes, tsunami and volcanic eruptions.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/3ylMOj8
ALT The Image is an aerial view of land. The top half is bush and the bottom is burnt earth. There is a trip of fire between the two. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in white. A red PSA logo is in the top right. Beneath is the headline “Govt’s war on science ramps up - big cuts planned for GNS Science” in large white text.
PSA members working within Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand are not seeing evidence of the Government’s claims about too many administrative and corporate roles in the health system.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/4c3Vngq
ALT The Image is inside a hospital corridor with three blurred figures in blue hospital scrubs in motion pushing a hospital bed. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in orange. A red PSA logo is in the top right. Beneath is the headline “Political rhetoric not matched by health workers’ experience” in large orange text.
ALT The image is a split colour tile with text in white, the top half is a mid-blue and the bottom half is black. The text on the top half reads: "Between the CEO and the senior leaders at the top and patients, there can be up to 14 layers of management,” Luxon said. The text on the bottom half reads “There’s a problem: the Government can’t prove there are 14 layers of management.” - The Post.
The treacherous actions by this Government to overturn a Court of Appeal decision covering Māori customary rights under Te Tiriti o Waitangi to the foreshore and seabed legislation is a despicable abuse of power.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/3WspCbg
ALT The Image is an ariel photo of a winding coastline. There is ocean to the right and a hillside covered in native bush with a coastal road winding through it on the left. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in white. A red PSA logo is in the top right. Beneath is the headline “Overturning Court of Appeal decision on foreshore and seabed is abuse of power” in large white text.
New Zealand’s challenges of safeguarding our environment and combatting climate change will get harder with the Ministry for the Environment confirming plans to cut its workforce by over a quarter in coming years.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/46jFsJA
ALT Image is a close up of a thermometer placed on a surface that is ¾ dry, cracked earth and ¼ green grass with clover. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in lime green. A red PSA logo is in the top right. Beneath is the headline “Sad day for Environment - more than a quarter of workforce to be cut” in large lime green text.
The Government should be funding the health system properly rather than axing more jobs in a rushed and reckless attempt to save money.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/3Lz7Hum
ALT Image is of an empty hospital corridor taken from a floor-eye view. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in burgundy. A red PSA logo is in the top right. Beneath is the headline “Govt should be increasing funding, not forcing another rushed restructure on Te Whatu Ora” in large burgundy text.
Further huge health cuts unveiled by the Government will only harm the services New Zealanders depend on.
Read the full media release: bit.ly/4cR5si5
ALT Image is of a slightly blurred stethoscope coiled on an orange background. “MEDIA RELEASE” is in the top left-hand corner in white. A white PSA logo is in the top right. Beneath is the headline “PSA urges Government to come clean on real agenda behind slashing health further” in large white text.