Year: 2012

Great relief for Auckland wharfies and their families

Auck­land wharfies are today relieved to hear that they can return to work to get the Port up and run­ning again for Auck­land.

Court finds union case ‘seriously arguable’

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand wel­comes the Employ­ment Courts writ­ten rea­sons, released today, for Tuesday’s grant­i­ng of an injunc­tion stop­ping the Ports of Auck­land con­tract­ing out.

Breakers fan stoked thundersticks will be there on Friday

New Zealand Break­ers fan Matt Balm­forth is stoked that the thun­der­sticks will be there in time for Friday’s semi final at Vec­tor Are­na.

Ports plans now looking like a train wreck

Today’s injunc­tion stop­ping Ports of Auck­land pro­gress­ing its plans to dis­miss and replace its work­force, com­bined with the company’s plan of an indef­i­nite lock­out, leaves Auck­land Coun­cil with no choice but to inter­vene to find a work­able solu­tion to the indus­tri­al dis­pute, the Mar­itime Union said today.

Outsourcing fishing observers role is dangerous for the industry

Mar­itime Union of NZ Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary, Joe Fleet­wood, said today that the gov­ern­ment is van­dal­is­ing the New Zealand fish­ing indus­try with plans to con­tract out the fish­ing observers for fish­ing ves­sels.

Outsourcing fishing observers role is dangerous for the industry

Mar­itime Union of NZ Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary, Joe Fleet­wood, said today that the gov­ern­ment is van­dal­is­ing the New Zealand fish­ing indus­try with plans to con­tract out the fish­ing observers for fish­ing ves­sels.

CTU asks what is the Transport Minister withholding on Ports of Auckland

The Coun­cil of Trade Unions is call­ing on Trans­port Min­is­ter Ger­ry Brown­lee to tell Auck­lan­ders what infor­ma­tion he is with­hold­ing on the Ports of Auck­land dis­pute.

ITF condemns ‘car crash’ decision by POAL managers

Glob­al union the ITF (Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion) today described POALs lock­out deci­sion as “unbe­liev­able, unlaw­ful and prac­ti­cal­ly sui­ci­dal”.

Advisory: law surrounding strikes and lockouts in essential services

Fol­low­ing enquiries, this advi­so­ry points reporters to employ­ment law cov­er­ing strikes and lock­outs in essen­tial ser­vices.

Unlawful lockout escalates Ports dispute

Ports of Auck­land work­ers are shocked to learn that the Ports have moved to lock them out of their jobs.