December 12, 2007

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.