Send John Key and Tony Ryall a message
If you think sleepover workers deserve a fair go, tell John Key and Tony Ryall to get back to negotiations.
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Lobbying your MP
Use these lobbying notes and contact your local MP about the sleepover case. You can find your MP over at the New Zealand Parliament website.
Meeting notices
The PSA and SFWU held meetings around the country for members who work in disability and mental health support services. Over 90 percent of PSA and SFWU union members have rejected an offer from Government to settle the long-running sleepover case....more.
Sleepover newsletter
Get the facts
Read more about the sleepover case.
Recent media coverage: Waikato Times
A recent story in the Waikato Times highlighted the poor pay that New Zealand carers recieve. Read the story here at stuff.co.nz
Summary of Up Where We Belong
Here you can find a summary of Up Where We Belong: a paper prepared by the PSA and the Service and Food Workers Union and published in November 2009...read more.
Support workers welcome landmark 'sleepover' judgement
Disability support workers throughout the country are welcoming a Court of Appeal judgment that requires they be paid the minimum wage for providing 24-hour support for people with disabilities and in community mental health facilities...read more.
Same Job Different Pay
We have added a map that shows the difference in pay across the country...check it out.
About the Campaign
Up Where We Belong is the campaign to raise the status of disability support.
People with intellectual disabilities are largely invisible in the community and the complexity of disability support work is not widely understood.
Low pay, poor training and the lack of recognition for skills and experience make it hard to employ and keep good staff. Disability support services are being run on the cheap. Both workers and people with intellectual disabilities are being seriously short-changed.
Many of the current problems can be sheeted home to inadequate government funding. The amount of funding is inadequate and the way it’s delivered is confusing and uncertain.
Up Where We Belong is putting the spotlight on disability support services to raise public awareness of the need for a radical overhaul in the way the government funds these essential public services.
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