• Source: Samoa Public Service Association
    • The Samoa Public Service Association (PSA; Samoan: Faalapotopotoga Tagata Faigaluega Malo Samoa) is a trade union in Samoa. Founded in 1969 as a branch of the New Zealand Public Service Association, and officially registered in 1979,: 39  the union's three-month strike in 1981 was critical to the rise of the Human Rights Protection Party and its victory in the 1982 Western Samoan general election.
      The union was quiescent from 1981, and allowed its registration to lapse in 2020. It organised a meeting in the wake of the HRPP's 2021 election loss and the 2021 Samoan constitutional crisis to hear the concerns of public servants around the firing of several chief executives by the new government.


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      Further reading


      Patricia Kinloch (1982). "The Strike in Western Samoa: An Interpretation". Pacific Viewpoint. 23 (2): 161–172. doi:10.1111/apv.232004. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
      "PSA Strike Cripples Post Office". Samoa Observer. 9 April 1981. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
      "PM says P.S.A. request is 'for fono' to decide". Samoa Observer. 9 April 1981. Retrieved 2 September 2021.

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