PSA News - 1 March 2016 Members in Corrective Services

To all PSA members in Corrective Services Late yesterday afternoon rumours started to circulate throughout CSNSW of a major announcement  to be made on Tuesday 1 March 2016. As we understand following the rumours, it is alleged to have considerable impact to CSNSW. Members may recall that during last year, the Department announced that they would commence a process called benchmarking. At that time this…

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PSA News – 19 February 2016

Crime scene staff equal pay fight PSA members at Fingerprint Operations refused to collect and analyse fingerprints recently to draw attention to pay disparity between them and their sworn colleagues. Members voted in late January to implement bans to protest doing the same work for less money. The action was covered by the Sunday Telegraph. LPI privatisation reprieve – of sorts Whilst the PSA is…

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Activist Summit Attendees

Activist Summit Attendees - February 2016 (PDF version) Remember PSA Annual Conference last May? We got together in the afternoon at an “Activist Summit” to talk about how we would fight the Baird Government’s attacks on public services. Working in small groups, you came up with a great list of ideas to progress the PSA’s “Pathways to Winning” strategy. Many of your ideas are now…

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PSA News - Possible service disruption Thursday 4 February

PSA management is currently negotiating an enterprise agreement with PSA staff. Staff in the PSA have not previously had an enterprise agreement. In September 2015, staff voted down the proposed enterprise agreement. You can view that agreement HERE. On Thursday 4 February,  a section of PSA staff have voted to take strike action for 4 hours from 9 am until 1 pm in support of…

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PSA News - 28 January 2016

PSA wins reassessment of medical assessments The PSA has successfully lobbied the Public Service Commission (PSC) to amend its proposed changes to the draft Fitness for Duty guidelines, relating to assessments for non-work related medical conditions and injuries. Based on the issues the PSA brought to the PSC’s attention, the PSC made some improvements to the draft guidelines, such as: more stringent requirements surrounding consultation…

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