Ports of Auckland has been handed notice of a 7-day full strike by the Maritime Union.
The week-long strike is due to start 7am February 24.
It’s additional to a partial strike notice, already in place, from February 15-22 during which wharfies will not work with containers moved by contractors at POA subsidiary Conlinxx.
The industrial action centres on plans to contract out jobs at the port. Maritime Union National President Garry Parsloe says the strike may be reconsidered if POA returned to the negotiating table.
Mr Parsloe said the annual report of Auckland Council Investments, tabled at a meeting of an Auckland Council committee today, contradicted reports of a “productivity crisis” at the port.
he protracted dispute is now in its fourth month and has seen five disruptive strikes and the loss of two major contracts to the Port of Tauranga.
The Maritime Union of New Zealand wants to protect outsourcing of port worker jobs and is mulling legal options ahead of proposed restructuring at Ports of Auckland.
Comments and questions
Make a simple decision
Close the port and send all containers to Northland and Tauranga
Get rid of both management and the wharfies in one swoop
Agreed
Then to finish turn the area into a beautiful park like Sydney
except Leftie Len will turn it into an over-priced car park.
Surely the unons could be donated to medical science for electro-therapy "treatments"?
except Leftie Len will turn it into an over-priced car park.
Surely the unons could be donated to medical science for electro-therapy "treatments"?
The Union is stupid. What do they expect from this strike? The management are already expecting and preparing for this. Do they expect management to give in and say sorry?
This really is the last straw! The POAL should put them out of their misery and hand them all their redundancies. Slowly, after many interviews, perhaps re-employ those that are prepared to work, and as mere employees work as they are requested. How can staff hold a port to ransom, and for so long? All POAL is trying to do is to implement the same work ethic as other ports in NZ have already done. However in Auckland, MUNZ just don’t get it. What part of work for your money doesn’t the union understand. This has become really ludicrous. I wonder how Mr Parsloe is going to be feeling when he loses his job, due to no followers. And to think we are supposed to feel sorry for them, what a joke!
Of course they are on strike next week and late Feb.
There's no stat holidays in those weeks, so a strike in mid-late Feb works out to be a much nicer holiday in the summer months, and doesn't clash with the holidays they get in late January and early February.
Simple really.
Phew - thought it might have been about a month out from Christmas again...
Right On !!!
We need to get rid of the lot. The article in last week(s) NBR laid it out all very simply.
The idea of getting rid of pommy unionist, a noisy eyesore and reclaiming the harbour as a tourist attraction , park etc, and not forgetting our beaches has to appeal even to dimwits such as Brown
We need to get rid of the lot. The article in last week(s) NBR laid it out all very simply.
The idea of getting rid of pommy unionist, a noisy eyesore and reclaiming the harbour as a tourist attraction , park etc, and not forgetting our beaches has to appeal even to dimwits such as Brown
We need to get rid of the lot. The article in last week(s) NBR laid it out all very simply.
The idea of getting rid of pommy unionist, a noisy eyesore and reclaiming the harbour as a tourist attraction , park etc, and not forgetting our beaches has to appeal even to dimwits such as Brown
This now warrants intervention from Wellington. These f---s are damaging NZs reputation !
SACK the lot,it should have happened from day one,
For god sake, Just Sack the work force and then re hire contractors. Don't let the union hold the port to ransom.
For god sake, Just Sack the work force and then re hire contractors. Don't let the union hold the port to ransom.
This Union does not really care about the workers, this is the last roll of the dice for them. This has now gone to far, one way or another their day is done.
You bunch of idiots, especially the comment ""sack the lot and re hire contractors"". Who do you think those contractors are going to be? they will be foriegners, mainly Indians who will work for half the pay, the shittiest working conditions and before you know it will totally control the wharves. And the outcome of this will be like all other industries in NZ, a kiwi cant get a job, or has to work for minimum wage. At least the wharves are lucky enough to have a union to represent them and prevent this happening, quite frankly if NZ did still have strong union intervention, maybe the economy might be a lot better than it is, maybe our children could get better jobs and pay rates and actually be able to live in our own country instead of having to immigrate to other countries to be able to afford to live.
Get a life, live in the real world mate, in the year 2012, The days you are talking about are long gone, thank goodness! Have you bothered to look at the work ethics of other NZ Ports, I think not!
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