NZPSA

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! m.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2504…

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/libr…

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

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/need…

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

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

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

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

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

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/work…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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