End of Year Update from your Schools PSA Delegates – Admin, Science, Learning Support, GAs, SSOs and School Psychologists

The PSA is a truly democratic union with elected delegates, from across the classifications in schools, that come together quarterly to discuss workplace issues that members are facing. Delegates are essential to the success of the union and they work side by side with PSA staff to improve the working lives of all our members in schools. This year, your delegates have given their all…

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PSA Update: School Psychologists Vacation Counselling Service

On 8 December 2021 as part of the PSA’s continuing consultation, the PSA (staff & your delegate) met with the Department to hear the feedback on critical incidents from the last vacation period and plans for School Psychologists attending to critical incidents in the next school holidays. Read more here about our previous meeting in September. Members are advised of the following: School Psychologists rostered…

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Gender pay gap widens in NSW public sector over past decade - SMH 13/12/2021

General secretary of the Public Service Association union Stewart Little said the public sector should not be seeing a growing pay gap, as the biggest employer in the country with a female-dominated workforce. “There is no doubt the surge in the pay gap is a direct result of the decision to only pay a 0.3 per cent increase last year, which disproportionately impacted women,” he…

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Transport Management Centre: PSA update

Over the last few weeks your union, the PSA has continued to meet with Transport Management Centre (TMC) management to discuss a host of important topics. COVID-19 update Transport for NSW (TfNSW) finalised the consultation around COVID-safe measures moving forward. The major change for the TMC is the introduction of mandatory surveillance testing for the entire building in the form of Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT).…

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In defence of ICAC

The PSA/CPSU NSW recognises the value and importance of ICAC and our members who work there. If there is ever an agency that is inappropriately maligned, it is ICAC. ICAC’s principal functions are: to investigate and expose corrupt conduct in the NSW public sector to actively prevent corruption through advice and assistance to educate the NSW community and public sector about its effects. So basically…

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