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Angry prison guards march on Parliament

Hundreds of South Australian prison guards have walked off the job and descended on Parliament House demanding the government reverse its decision to privatise the Adelaide Remand Centre.

We're backing PSA members, insists Marshall

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall is “disappointed” in the Public Service Association’s decision to take industrial action over the outsourcing of some prison beds.

Community mental health workers in Adelaide's south are managing an overwhelming workload of young patients. Stock photo: Ryan Melaugh / Flickr

Southern Adelaide mental health services 'overloaded' and 'unsafe'

SA Health managers have asked social workers who haven’t finished training in youth mental health to treat child patients, unions claim, as an apparent workload crisis in southern Adelaide deepens.

Govt policy sparks concern for disability housing in SA

The Public Service Association and the Greens say about 500 people with disabilities have been left in uncertainty about the future of their public housing following a State Government decision to move a government-run accommodation service to the private sector.

Govt scrambles to avert "perfect storm" of industrial action

South Australia’s public servants have agreed to work bans across government departments, joining doctors and hospital staff in a “perfect storm” of industrial action – unless the State Government accepts their claims.

Govt "doesn't know" Lands Titles Office sale jobs impact

Acting Premier John Rau says the State Government does not yet know how many Lands Titles Office employees would be displaced by its impending privatisation after the Public Service Association claimed 200 jobs were at risk.

Under-fire SA Pathology braces for hundreds of job cuts

The union representing SA Pathology staff says the quality of services provided by the embattled organisation can only fall when hundreds of jobs are cut in the coming years.