Day: 12 December 2007

Employment Court throws out Port of Napier injunction

The Employ­ment Court in Welling­ton today declined to put an injunc­tion on pos­si­ble pick­ets by work­ers at the Port of Napi­er as pick­ets loom over the sum­mer.

Moves by the Port of Napi­er to con­tract out steve­dor­ing work threat­en 25 per­ma­nent and 60 casu­al jobs, with work­ers to be thrown on the scrap heap just before Christ­mas.