Our Campaigns

  The public sector has suffered under eight years of Coalition Government and its agenda to reduce the services we provide to the NSW community. This cannot continue. The attack on public servants continues: Efficiency dividend – how can departments save 12% over four years without cutting staff? $60 billion worth of assets sold off […]

    SAS Staff are Worth 100% The PSA knows SAS Staff are worth their weight in gold. That is why our ongoing campaign for SAS Staff is “Worth 100% – Paid. Protected. Permanent. “  100% PAID After many years of building our case and collecting and lodging evidence, we have finally concluded our pay […]

Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she wants to freeze the pay of all public sector workers for only 12 months. The reality is the Government’s proposed wage freeze will affect you for the remainder of your working life. If the Government gets its way, not only will you lose this year’s wage rise, every subsequent pay […]

Understanding, Prevention + Protection, Support, Recovery For many years, the PSA has fought for members to have safe workplaces, manageable workloads and genuine access to their Award entitlements such as flex time and flexible work. The work you do is so important to the community but the other side of child protection is the impact […]

  The TAFE system has been battered by government cuts as a great vocational system is forced to compete at the level of cut-price private operators. Rebuild Our TAFE aims to restore this vocational system to the high standard it once held. Our Goals Rebuild Our TAFE The State and Federal governments have to repair […]

The Clarence Correctional Centre is the largest prison in Australia and the biggest employer in Grafton. A huge correctional facility running on the outskirts of town, hiring about 500 locals, should be a massive bonus for the Grafton business community. Sadly, though, the centre is operated by Serco, a multinational listed on the UK Stock […]

The PSA CPSU NSW fought against the complete privatisation of disability services in NSW.  The privatisation is almost complete. The union firmly believes there should be a public sector safety for circumstances that are not covered by the NDIS in NSW and to assist those people to whom the private sector struggles to provide services. […]

Campaign Launch – Aug 2020 (PDF version) CPSU NSW members are invited to attend the Australia Needs TAFE. Keep It Public campaign launch on Thursday 13 August 2020 at 1pm via Zoom. Register HERE. The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed our state. Jobs have been lost, hours cut, and pay and work practices changed significantly. NSW […]

While the Federal Government continues to underfund universities, and with the collapse over the overseas student funding model due to COVID-19, university heads are being forced to look at ways to manage their budgets. Universities should be doing everything possible to ensure the wages, conditions and jobs of all university staff are maintained and protected. […]