Rally to support School Cleaners!

PSA CPSU NSW Assistant General Secretary Troy Wright will be speaking this Saturday 11 May in support of Cleaners in their fight for safe, secure, family sustaining jobs. Seven thousand cleaners across NSW work under whole-of-government contracts, cleaning our public schools, police and ambulance stations, TAFE campuses and other state government offices and properties. The use of outsourced, privatised contracts has resulted in low wages,…

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Support our Child Protection Caseworkers

NSW Community Services are taking action across the state today to protest our failed our Child Protection system. Child Protection Caseworkers say they simply don't have the staff or resources to support our most vulnerable children and the model that saw foster care services privatised is on the brink of collapse. The PSA has called on the NSW Government to urgently intervene and fix the…

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Police Radio PSA Update: Meeting with Management

In response to the recent events, particularly the Illawarra flooding in early April 2024, the PSA promptly addressed concerns raised by our members by writing to the Commissioner. On 1st May 2024, your PSA industrial staff engaged in a constructive meeting with ROG management to discuss these pressing issues. While the primary focus was on the flooding event, we also discussed other significant occurrences that…

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PSA CPSU NSW Retired Associates – April/May Update

Retired Associates met on 23 April 2024 at PSA House and by zoom. Troy Wright, Assistant General Secretary provided an update.  Issues discussed included: future pay rises for public servants; recent changes to the Industrial Relations Act, 1996; ongoing problems with the Powerhouse Museum, including flooding at the Parramatta site; PSA has established a Committee of Cultural Institutions; a curator from the Powerhouse is on…

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Child Protection in Crisis: NSW Day of Action

Child Protection Caseworkers will protest outside Community Services Centres across the state tomorrow at 12:30pm over unacceptable risk to child safety in NSW. Only one in four children reported to Community Services as at risk of significant harm (ROSH) are being seen by a Child Protection Caseworker, as there simply isn’t enough staff to meet the demand for critical services. The Department’s own data shows…

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