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Facts

  • More than 7 million call NSW home
  • More 84,500 babies are born here each year
  • More than 98,300 move to NSW every year

Threats

  • The public sector workforce in NSW is ageing fast
  • Investment in services is at risk of falling behind community needs
  • More cuts to pubic sector jobs and services

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June 17
Tim Ayres's picture
Posted by Tim Ayres

Here in NSW, manufacturing workers build everything from passenger train carriages through to massive naval air warfare destroyers.Support the campaign: www.buildthemhere.com.auSupport the campaign: www.buildthemhere.com.au

But in recent years, more and more of our transport manufacturing contracts have gone to low-cost overseas competitors. 
 


Buses and rail rolling stock, along with all sorts of other heavy equipment, are commonly imported from China in tube or flat-pack form. After they’re shipped over, the skilled NSW tradespeople who used to build these buses and trains from scratch now assemble and fit them out. 
 


This trend puts valuable jobs, skills and apprenticeship opportunities at risk.  
 


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June 9
John Cahill's picture
Posted by John Cahill

The NSW Government’s budget surplus averaging $800 million each year for the next four years would be better spent improving the public services that have been razed by years of cost cutting.

What a waste: we need services not surplusesWhat a waste: we need services not surplusesIf we are to successfully implement the budget’s infrastructure plans and meet projected population increases across NSW, we’ll simply need more public sector workers.

As the NSW economy recovers and major infrastructure projects begin to take off, it is concerning that no efforts are being made by the Government to keep up with demand.

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May 28
John Cahill's picture
Posted by John Cahill

The NSW Government must commit to growing the public sector at next month’s budget if it is to keep up with the demand for essential services.

This is one of the key findings revealed in Keeping Pace: The Impact of Population Growth on NSW Public Services, a report launched at the PSA’s annual conference in Sydney today.

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May 24
Sue Walsh's picture
Posted by Sue Walsh

A decision in the Industrial Relations Commission recently to allow all breastfeeding mothers in the public service lactation breaks and the right to a private space to express milk has been hailed as a breakthrough for women’s rights, and it is hoped more workplaces will follow suit.
Breastfeeding: more milk pleaseBreastfeeding: more milk please

 

 

 

 

 

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April 21
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Posted by Scott Weber

Emergency services and health workers are sick of being punching bags for drunk idiots.  They need your support - sign the Last Drinks petition! 

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April 7
Tony Howen's picture
Posted by Tony Howen

If someone told me just a few years ago that I’d be fighting against a Labor Government’s plan to sell a prison, I’d have locked them up and thrown away the key. Stirring things up: the community rallied to save CessnockStirring things up: the community rallied to save Cessnock

But that’s what happened when one day the NSW Government announced a plan to privatise our prison, the Cessnock Correctional Centre. In the beginning we couldn’t really understand the motives and reasons to sell off Cessnock along with Parklea Gaol. But we fought. And on May Day in 2009, we knew our fight against the sale of Cessnock had been worth it.

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April 1
Darin Sullivan's picture
Posted by Darin Sullivan

During our last Award negotiations for NSW firefighters, I sat in a meeting with other FBEU officials, and NSW Treasury.

While discussing the limit placed on public sector wages, we floated one of many ideas that firefighters could implement to save the NSW government millions of dollars in school infrastructure through fire prevention. We suggested that a portion of that could be returned in wages.

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March 31
Scott Weber's picture
Posted by Scott Weber

NSW has a drinking problem.

The number of alcohol-related assaults is growing by over 6 per cent every year. The cost of on our community is staggering.

Every Friday and Saturday night our entertainment precincts become a stage for a sad spectacle of boozed-up men and women fighting and causing trouble.

Police officers, doctors nurses and ambulance officers are at the front-line of this disgusting ritual – and often on the receiving end of the pointless violence.

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March 30
Steve Turner's picture
Posted by Steve Turner

There’s a new threatened species in our National Parks and they’re big, friendly and dressed in khaki.Disappearing: Where have all the rangers gone?Disappearing: Where have all the rangers gone?

For some months now a new predator in our parks has hunted down the species known to many as the Park Ranger. The carnivorous NSW State Government has been praying on services, stripping them back and shutting down a number of regional offices. It’s a situation that has seen the number of threatened staff, including park rangers, office managers and field staff scaled back.

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March 24
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Posted by Andrew Eppelstun

I joined the Police Force 22 years ago. I joined because I wanted to make a difference to the community; I wanted to help make our streets safe.

I came into the job knowing that it was never going to be easy, and I love it for exactly that reason. I knew there would be times when I’d have things thrown at me, get yelled at, and find myself in dangerous situations. I accepted that before I signed up.

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