Workers will rally for an hour from 11am to 12pm on picket lines at PHF Science sites in Mt Albert (Auckland), Kenepuru and Wallaceville (Wellington), and Ilam (Christchurch). They do not want to go back to a blunt instrument that doesn’t belong in public science or public services.” “The last time PHF Science had performance-based pay, its workers were some of the lowest paid in the science sector,” said Fitzsimons. “This is the latest episode in the rolling disaster that is the Government’s reforms to the science sector.” No wonder so many skilled science workers are giving up on New Zealand altogether and moving overseas.”