Merry Christmas from the PSA CPSU NSW

From the PSA CPSU NSW Executive, Central Council, Staff and Delegates, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Prosperous, Unionised New Year. We are drawing to the close of 2024, a year that has proven the power of a strong, united union that goes into fight and wins for its members. We’ve seen our membership continue to grow and wages and conditions improve across the…

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Judicial Associates End of Year Update

As mentioned in our previous bulletin, the PSA has conducted a survey of membership in respect of the settlement of the PSA’s Associates Award application. The overwhelming majority of membership has voted in favour of settlement. Consistent with the outcome of the vote, the PSA has accepted the offer and there is now an in-principle agreement to resolve the proceedings. The in-principle agreement is that,…

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PSA Education Support Staff End of Year Wrap-up

We know it has been an especially difficult year for PSA members in Education Support Staff (ESS) roles. Since the Secretary announced in April 2024 significant cuts to the Education budget, we knew the biggest impact would be felt in the ESS areas.  We saw the ‘Embedded Services Review’ follow and all divisions and directorates were directed to undertake functional reviews, which inevitably resulted in…

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Community Corrections End of Year Update and feedback from your Departmental Committee

As we approach the end of 2024 and move into the 126 year of the Public Service Association (PSA), we thank our members and delegates for their hard work and dedication and provide the following update. Academy Training The PSA is working with Human Resources and Brush Farm Corrective Services Academy (BFA) to look at what is happening in the training space, especially with the…

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Community Services: South West Sydney District Joint Consultative Committee – December 2024

Dear %FIRSTNAME%, We regularly meet to talk about your concerns with your Directors and Executive District Director Paul Garrahy at the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC). The quarterly JCC was held Wednesday 18 December 2024 for the South West Sydney District and was attended by PSA Industrial staff, your PSA Delegates and Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) leadership. Overtime Advice  PSA again raised the push…

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