Daily Telegraph goes inside Silverwater & finds "society’s overlooked heroes"

"The tireless men and women of Corrective Services NSW who proudly walk the Silverwater corridors and myriad NSW court cells are society’s overlooked heroes. Putting their lives on the line, dealing with the state’s worst humans every day, but retaining an impressive decorum filled with confidence, compassion and humour, three traits that would be swiftly stripped out of most ordinary souls on day one with…

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Baird must do better for Home Care workers

Home Care Bulletin - Baird must do better for Home Care workers 5 December 2014 (PDF) The PSA has received further correspondence from NSW Industrial Relations in response to the position the PSA has taken in the negotiations. However there is still no agreement between the PSA, NSW IR and Home Care on a transfer package. While many other issues are now agreed, the following…

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POVB News

POVB News November 2014 (PDF version) Haemorrhagic Fever EBOLA Recently a member asked what CSNSW’s process was for dealing with EBOLA. This was put to Senior Managers of the Department in the Consultative Forum and we received a response that can be condensed down to the following. CSNSW advised that CSNSW works with the health and other public sector agencies and that well-established pandemic plans…

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Home Care Service transition negotiations report back

Home Care Bulletin 18 November 2014 (PDF version) The PSA met with the FACS and NSW Industrial Relations negotiators on Tuesday 11 November. Michael Coutts-Trotter was also in attendance at this meeting. The Government responded to the PSA’s demands that the transfer package include a three year guaranteed protection of wages, conditions and jobs and a 30 week transfer payment as per previous privatisations. Michael…

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Serco prison guard incident highlights PSA concerns about the non-government sector

Read the Daily Telegraph article HERE A RUNAWAY asylum seeker was arrested yesterday at the home of his female Serco prison guard lover who had just had his baby. Detainee Aziz Ali Abdulkader is alleged to have fled from detention in Brisbane just over nine months ago and was ­rearrested at his lover’s home in Greenacre yesterday morning. According to a Serco whistleblower, who informed…

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