Happy New year and welcome back to work for 2020. We hope you all had a safe and restful break and enjoyed an extra special Christmas due to the historic pay equity win last year.
Our PSA organisers are dropping in to schools to say hello and to organise meetings. If you would like a PSA meeting in your school. please email us on . Your organisers are:
Metro
- Ann Attwater
- Marisa Bosco
- Susan Chee Quee
- Surabi Alauddin
- Les Marsden
- Brett Hammond (GAs)
Regional
- Paul James, Gino Di Candilo and Ian Braithwaite (Newcastle/Hunter)
- Rebecca Riley and Asren Pugh (North Coast)
- Bart Mckenzie and Shane Elliot (South Coast)
- Steve Mears (North West)
- Belinda Pearce (Central West)
- Michelle Mackintosh (South West)
School Support Staff are Worth 100% ‑ paid, protected, permanent
2019 was a huge year for the PSA, members and delegates worked on the following:
- Huge pay increases as a result of the Pay Equity win
- Succeeded in forcing the Department to make WBS-IO voluntary, a massive win for members!
- Campaigned for extra resources for SAS staff throughout the year resulting in 1.67 million dollars for additional hours and overtime.
- Establishing the SAO Science Advisory Group to represent members working in science
Some of the issues we will be working on this year are:
- Supporting members to log every incident and fighting for a safer workplace
- Workload and work intensification issues for School Support Staff
- Ensuring a strong pathway to permanency for Long Term Temporary employees
- Quality Training – the PSA will continue to work to ensure you are still provided with a high level of training and development
- Advocating for a fairer SAS Staff and GA staffing levels in the Staffing Methodology Review
If you are a member with an individual issue you can contact the PSA on 1300 772 679 for advice and support.
Do you know someone who is not a member? Or do you have any new starters at your school? You can assist the work of the PSA and delegates so we can get better outcomes for everyone just by asking your colleagues to JOIN.