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13 hours ago

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Thank you for all that you done and these great initiatives

Great job PSA, Thank you

Great initiative!!!

now that other nsw government employees have been deemed “ESSENTIAL SERVICES” can we lodge some action to have their former rights under WORKERS COMPENSATION restored, please.

Great work. Question: Is this an ongoing benefit or just for the duration of the pandemic?

Great work

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14 hours ago

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The current pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for members working in non-custodial roles with CSNSW. Every member should be congratulated and

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Public Service Association of NSW

22 hours ago

VIRUS EXPOSES A FUNDING FLAW

It has taken a worldwide pandemic to expose the folly of turning a great education system investing in Australia’s future into one dependent too much on overseas students.

The CPSU NSW has called on the Federal Government to provide urgent financial assistance to universities affected by a downturn in international student numbers created by the Coronavirus pandemic.

In February this year, credit agency Standard & Poors estimated Australian universities may forfeit billions in lost revenue as international students are kept out of the country due to restrictions on people entering Australia.

“For decades Governments have pushed our public universities to build business models based on expanding their international fee-paying student numbers to supplement cuts in public funding,” said CPSU NSW Assistant State Branch Secretary, Troy Wright. “We’ve turned our public universities into businesses and in doing so exposed them to market vulnerability.

“Many of our universities are now either highly dependent on revenue from international students or cash-strapped to the extent they can’t easily sustain a further decline in income.”

These cuts are not only harming the state’s universities, but regional communities that depend on the students living in them.

“Universities have become among the most important employers in our regions and generate enormous economic activity in other parts of the economy,” he said.

“The Prime Minister must step in and ensure adequate funding is available to universities experiencing, or likely to experience, significant losses in revenues.” ... See MoreSee Less

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Public Service Association of NSW

2 days ago

PRIVATE IS BETTER? YEAH, ABOUT THAT

You can be sure next time the State Government and its supporters in the Murdoch press prepare our members for yet another sell-off, the old “the private sector is more efficient” mantra will be let out of its cage for its regular walk round the block.

So, just how efficient is the private sector at delivering public services? We could knock on the door of a stationary tram carriage in Sydney and ask the passengers trapped inside how the privately run light rail system, nicknamed The Red Snail, is going. In some parts of the route, we’d have to speak loudly to be heard over the sounds of government-run trains running past on time and at a speed faster than a three-legged donkey.

If you need a bus ride out of peak hours, you may have a tough time in those parts of the city where private providers have cut services at quiet times of the day. Little wonder so many of us drive – and pay tolls – on privately run motorways. We could visit a privately run gaol and see lower-paid Officers struggling with insufficient staff-to-inmate ratios and a work environment so bad even the State Government has torn up an operator’s contract.

We could ask some of the customers giving evidence at the recent royal commission into bank and insurance companies what they think of this shining example of private-run enterprise. Some of them might even recall fondly the days the Commonwealth Bank was run by the state and not a board that allowed the once venerable institution to be used by drug syndicates for money laundering, one that ignored statutory reporting responsibilities for more than three years on more than 750,000 accounts.

Of course, you might need to take out a mortgage at one of these banks if you are required to park your car more than twice a month at Sydney’s privately owned – yet conveniently monopolised – airport. Or you can shell out a fortune to take a train via its privately run rail link – sending your money to the British pension scheme that owns the service.

We’re sure people forced by tax laws into paying ever-increasing health insurance premiums that return a pittance on every claim are doing cartwheels of joy at this forced intrusion of the private sector into their lives.

Hapless students conned with gimmicks such as free laptops to enrol in courses must feel elation as the receivers are called into their colleges midway through degrees they suddenly realise they will never complete.

The PSA/CPSU NSW has seen numerous calamitous privatisations, state and federal alike, that have simply not delivered the efficiencies promised. The only real efficient thing they have done is move the proceeds of the state sector into boardrooms, banks and overseas tax havens.

One of the best parts of my job is working with members and Delegates and seeing the excellent work our members do for the people of this state. We help educate, transport, protect and serve NSW in a professional, efficient and cost-effective manner. And the people who want to sell off your services are not doing it so you do your job more efficiently, they are doing it for their own financial gains.

Troy Wright
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Wow Troy Wright you've hit the nail right on its head - well said! I would like to see this in the newspapers but bloody Murdoch's lackeys won't print it!!

This pandemic shows how privatisation is not better. We need govt to be involved in our life. Business is not there for us, only want profits. But I can see a big sell off coming after we get through this. A big excuse.

Keep a close eye on the sport n rec centres!!! Lake Ainsworth, Lake Keepit, Burrendong, etc etc. LNP already tried to privatise these centres....this COVID is a sure fire excuse to go ahead with its nasty plans.

Can't disagree with a lot of the privatisation points. But a lot of the PS did not reach too many highs either. How we go from here, I don't know. Maybe a PS working at optimum, and consultants removed from the payroll.

will Australians learn? when the footy is back on all will be forgotten.

Nothing that has been privatised is better or cheaper.

Don't forget how well the power supply is going 👍

That’s what is ahead of us when this episode is over.

Well said Troy.

Amen

Well Said

Well said.

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Public Service Association of NSW

2 days ago

YOUTH JUSTICE: UPDATE FOR PSA MEMBERS

The Department and the union are investing significant resources to try and keep COVID-19 exposure in our workplaces as minimal as possible through the establishment of a COVID Command Centre. This Command Centre is providing daily updates and progressively issuing instructions and specific procedures to assist in resolving incidents.

Read the full bulletin below.

PSA members please contact Gino DiCandilo for advice and support or call the Member Support Centre on 1300 772 679.

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Up to date: Thursday 5pm 26 March 2020 Communications from COVID Command Centre The Department and the union are investing significant resources to try

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