For­mer Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) gen­er­al sec­re­tary and de­feat­ed 2025 pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Nixon Cal­len­der has is­sued a warn­ing to mem­bers, con­demn­ing what he de­scribes as an alarm­ing shift to­wards po­lit­i­cal align­ment with­in the union.

In a strong­ly word­ed state­ment yes­ter­day, Cal­len­der ac­cused new­ly elect­ed PSA pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas and her ex­ec­u­tive of be­tray­ing the union’s core mis­sion by open­ly sup­port­ing a po­lit­i­cal par­ty.

Cal­len­der said re­cent state­ments from Thomas con­firmed that the PSA was no longer func­tion­ing as an in­de­pen­dent trade union but had be­come a po­lit­i­cal arm of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).