Office of the NSW Ombudsman members meeting – notice of change to meeting date
Please be advised that the upcoming members meeting has been rescheduled to Friday 29 of August 2025.
The PSA will be holding a members’ meeting to allow members to raise concern or questions you may have and to allow us to collate agenda items for discussion at the upcoming Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) meeting with management.
This is an opportunity for members and non-members to meet with your PSA organsier and delegates to learn about the role of the PSA in your workplace and also discuss how your union can best support your workplace.
Members are encouraged to send any agenda items that they would like discussed to
If you know any non-members’ that would like to learn more about your union, invite them to attend.
Stop the cuts: Come support the Art Gallery of NSW
PSA members and supporters of the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) are invited to this lunchtime event on Wednesday 27 August 2025 to protest the cuts to jobs and services announced by the NSW Government on 12 August 2025.
More than 50 frontline roles are set to be cut, placing future exhibitions and the gallery’s public programs at serious risk.
AGNSW staff will be walking out as group at 12:30pm. Please show your support by greeting them once they have walked down the building steps.
Details
Date Wednesday 27 August 2027 Time 12:30pm-1:00pm (Please arrive from 12:15pm) Location Outside the Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery Road The Domain
You are invited to draw up some creative placards and signs to this event.
Supports are invited to RSVP for logistical purposes.
What more can I do?
Spread the word about our rally – invite all your colleagues, and supporters of AGNSW to show solidarity with Art Gallery staff.
It pays to be union: Union Shopper helping members cut their bills and win big
Members of the PSA CPSU NSW can cut the cost of living through their union’s relationship with Union Shopper.
Union Shopper works by negotiating with companies on behalf of more than one million union members throughout Australia. You can learn more about your union’s relationship with Union Shopper HERE.
For the remainder of August, and continuing through September, PSA CPSU NSW members are eligible for a special promotion through our new energy comparison service.
This not only helps members save money by being connected to the best possible plan (sourced from multiple energy retailers), but also gives them access to guaranteed rewards for switching. Members making the switch will get $50 for residential gas, up to $70 for internet, and up to $170 for Small to Medium Enterprise energy.
One Union Shopper member is guaranteed to win $1500 in our electricity switching draw.
The winner will be announced on 3 December 2025.
This Union Shopper promotion is available to all PSA CPSU NSW members until 30 September 2025.
To learn more about this deal for members, click HERE.
Art Gallery of NSW PSA members and supporters are invited to this lunchtime event on Wednesday 27 August 2025 to protest the cuts to jobs and services announced by the NSW Government on 12 August 2025.
More than 50 frontline roles are set to be cut, placing future exhibitions and the gallery’s public programs at serious risk.
PSA members are asked to meet at the Centenary Auditorium at 12.15pm to walk together to the rally out the front.
Details
Date Wednesday 27 August 2027 Time 12:30pm-1:00pm Location Outside the Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery Road The Domain
Attendees are urged to meet in the Centenary Auditorium from 12:15pm. You are invited to draw up some creative placards and signs to this event.
Spread the word about our rally – invite all your colleagues, members and non-members alike, to join this action. These cuts affect all Art Gallery of NSW staff workloads.
The PSA will be holding a members’ meeting to allow members to raise concern or questions you may have and to allow us to collate agenda items for discussion at the upcoming Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) meeting with management.
This is an opportunity for members and non-members to meet with your PSA organsier and delegates to learn about the role of the PSA in your workplace and discuss how your union can best support your workplace.
Members are encouraged to send any agenda items that they would like discussed to
If you know any non-members’ that would like to learn more about your union, invite them to attend.
The PSA will be holding a members’ meeting to allow members to raise concern or questions you may have and to allow us to collate agenda items for discussion at the upcoming Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) meeting with management.
This is an opportunity for members and non-members to meet with your PSA organsier and delegates to learn about the role of the PSA in your workplace and discuss how your union can best support your workplace.
Members are encouraged to send any agenda items that they would like discussed to
If you know any non-members’ that would like to learn more about your union, invite them to attend.
PSA Schools Recognition Week 2025: Delivering Excellence in Schools
PSA Schools Recognition Week: 1-5 September 2025
It’s not long now until PSA Schools Recognition Week kicks off, where the union promotes the wonderful work you do and encourages the school community to recognise you and thank you.
The PSA first launched PSA Schools Recognition Week in the early 2000s, since that time we have grown this amazing celebration of our members in schools to bring all classifications together to celebrate the vital role you have delivering excellence for your school communities.
If your Principal, teaching staff or P&C haven’t got anything planned yet, let them know Recognition Week is coming up soon so they can plan a thank you for all the non-teaching staff at your school.
Invite everyone along and your PSA Organiser!
Don’t forget to invite everyone from the General Assistant, Farm Assistants, School Psychologist, Student Support Officer, Aboriginal Education Officers, all the Administrative Staff, Learning Support Officers, SAOs working in science, the library and food tech, and any Community Liaison Officers that might work at your school as well as any other support staff working with you.
Email us at with RECOGNITION WEEK EVENT in the subject line if you would like your organiser to attend.
You’re invited: Meeting of the PSA CPSU NSW Retired Associates
Retired Associates are warmly invited to attend our August meeting either in person or remotely. Our meeting will include briefings from senior PSA staff and include a focus on value added benefits and how Retired Associates can access them.
If you are joining the meeting externally you can do so through Microsoft Teams. If you are using your home PC, the meeting will open in your default browser with no need for additional software. If you are on a mobile device (your phone or tablet), it will require an additional app to download, which will begin once you click on the meeting link HERE.
Details
Date Tuesday 26 August 2025 Time 10:30am-12:30pm Location PSA House 160 Clarence Street Sydney NSW 2000
The meeting will also be held via Microsoft Teams Join the meeting here Meeting ID448 557 749 341 3 Passcode6bV3tg7s
Follow-up meeting for PSA members at the Natural Resources Access Regulator
PSA members in the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) met on Tuesday 19 August to discuss the Change Management Plan provided to staff the same day. At that point members had not had enough time to review the plan.
The PSA is calling a follow-up meeting seeking your feedback on the Change Management Plan.
Details
Date Tuesday 26 August 2025 Time 12:30pm-1:30pm Location 4PSQ: Meeting room 18.07
The meeting will also be held online via Microsoft Teams. Join the meeting here Meeting ID 411 756 464 271 9 Passcode rJ6yv9mm
Bring a non-member
Know a non-member? Encourage them to join today. The PSA is the state’s major Public Sector union and has been proudly fighting for a well-funded public sector and to advance the pay and conditions of NSW public sector workers like yourself for more than 125 years. Workers are stronger when we stick together.
Environment Protection Authority: No changes without consultation
The PSA has been contacted by concerned members about rumours of a restructure in the Environment Protection Authority (EPA). The EPA is aware of its consultation obligations regarding any such organisational change.
The PSA has not been engaged by the EPA regarding any proposed changes through either formal or informal discussions. No changes can occur without meaningful consultation.
Please be assured the PSA will engage our membership immediately if any change proposal is announced.
Workers are stronger when we stick together
Know a non-member? Encourage them to join today. The PSA has been proudly fighting to advance the pay and conditions of NSW public sector workers like yourself for more than 125 years.
PSA stop-work notice: Youth Justice Workers set to take action over ongoing payroll issues
The PSA’s peak Youth Justice Departmental Committee has unanimously resolved to commence a campaign of industrial action in response to the agency’s refusal to fix a payroll system that routinely leaves Youth Justice staff out of pocket.
The Committee’s decision has not been taken lightly and comes after many months of continued pay concerns being brought forward by the membership.
Youth Justice staff have a right to be paid on time and correctly. We are not prepared to accept a second-rate system any longer and we are sick of talking about it.
It’s time to act. It’s time to act!
Details
All members of the PSA on shift at Acmena, Riverina, Cobham and Frank Baxter Youth Justice centres are directed to attend a stop-work meeting:
Date Wednesday 27 August 2025
Time 1:00pm-3:00pm
The above timeslot has been chosen so that only an hour of industrial action is taken by each line across the shift changeover.
Members at other centres are encouraged to continue looking out for communications from the PSA in the event this action is expanded.
Only members of the PSA are protected in taking Industrial Action by Clause 64 of the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Award 2009, which states that “There will be no victimisation of staff members prior to, during or following industrial action”.
For further information please talk to your workplace delegate. Alternatively you can contact your Industrial Officer, Ben James, on 1800 772 679.
PSA update: Transport for NSW job cuts dispute and letter to your MP
As reported earlier this week, the relevant unions have a dispute with Transport for NSW (TfNSW) regarding consultation on its proposal to cut up to 950 positions.
As a result of discussions this week, TfNSW has proposed some amendments to the consultation schedule, which extends the timeframes for some consultation processes. It seeks to minimise concurrent consultation timeframes, to ensure members have their Award-protected right to be given reasonable time to provide input and discuss the proposed changes with your union.
While these changes are being considered by the unions, the dispute has not yet been resolved. There are also several other matters the unions are seeking consultation on, including, but not limited to:
Detail on the number of Labour Hire employee, including where they are being utilised, and why there are still more than 700 Labour Hire resources being used whilst TfNSW plans to cut 950 jobs.
Detail on natural attrition rates and current advertising of roles. If TfNSW was prepared to cut 200 TSSEs via natural attrition over two years, why don’t it apply the same approach to less generously remunerated workers?
Detail on when the “planned” cutting of 100 more Transport Senior Service Executives will occur, and why they are being kept on the books whilst cutting less generously remunerated workers in order to make savings.
More information on the “savings” required and whether recently discovered fraud contributed to the stated “funding shortfall”. What other options have been considered as an alternative to cutting jobs?
Further discussions next week
While the dispute remains open, as these issues have not been resolved, continued discussions will occur next week.
The campaign continues: Send a letter to your local MP
The PSA has drafted a template letter that members may wish to send to their elected Member of Parliament. The letter asks whether they support the plan to cut 950 TfNSW workers, whilst continuing the protection racket for more than 1000 Senior Executives in Transport. You can visit the below link, which will allow you to view the template letter, amend as you see fit, and automatically send to your elected Member of Parliament.
