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Tell us secret prison benchmarking behind job cuts: union

The prison officers union is demanding access to confidential details of a benchmarking program used to identify potential job cuts in SA prisons.

SA prisons in lockdown amid privatisation, job cuts dispute

Correctional officers have been warned they will be stood down if they continue today’s statewide prison lockdown, the head of the Public Service Association claims.

PSA members protest outside Parliament House today. Photo: AAP/David Mariuz

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.

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.

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