P.S.A. Staff Differences With Association

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30452, 28 May 1964, Page 7

P.S.A. Staff Differences With Association

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, May 27. The time will come when staff members of the Public Service Association will want to form an organisation outside the P.S.A., and of a more formal nature than the existing one, according to a special P.S.A. newsletter. If that were the case, the association’s executive officers would not object if they dekired this as the most satisfactory way' of conducting relations between themselves as staff and the P.S.A. as their employer, the newsletter said. The newsletter dealt with several recent differences between the association and some members of its staff. Since these differences had been deliberately distorted in certain quarters, the association now had no choice but to depart from its longstanding policy of reticence about the personal circum-

stances of its employees, the newsletter said. The issues dealt with include staff conditions, salaries and grading, treatment of staff members who have retired or resigned, staff benefits, control of association expenditure, the staff savings scheme, and the staff organisation.