How to support Ports of Auckland workers

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1. All courage to your mem­bers in the cur­rent dis­pute in Auck­land

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2. Your stand for work­ing class prin­ci­ple has my utmost admi­ra­tion and appre­ci­a­tion.
   Please let me know what sup­port­ers might be able to do down in Welling­ton.

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3. i am in full sup­port as we may be sub­ject to the same treat­ment our selvs in the not to dis­tant future so go hard broth­ers and good luck.

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4. Your prin­ci­pled stand for job secu­ri­ty in the work­place will ensure a ben­e­fi­cial result for your­selves and oth­ers also the employ­ers will think twice before any future attempt to put their jack boot on the throat of fel­low work­ers. Thanks and Kia Kaha. Crew mem­ber Oil Tanker Torea

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5. this is a fight for all work­ers in this coun­try of ours. What we see here is the future of our coun­trys indus­tri­al vision. CHEAP LABOUR,CASUALISATION,DISUNITY AMONGST WORKERS,BIGGER PROFITS AT THE EXPENSE OF WORKERS AND FAMILYS SUFFERING. AS IF ITS NOT BAD ENOUGH ALLREADY, PANDERING TO OVERSEAS SHIPPING LINES,Amazing how quick Maer­sk and fron­tera were to say good­bye to the port of auck­land, what ever the out­come i would imag­ine they would be back with­in hours i just cant help but think these two com­pa­nies and the port of auck­land have sat down togeth­er to plan this out and make the work­ers out to be the bad guys and get mileage for there dic­ta­tor­ship agenda.The eyes of the coun­try are watch­ing, Stand firm and staunch fight the bat­tle all the way for the work­ers and fam­ilys of this coun­try.

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6. go the port work­ers!

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7. It’s a very grim day for New Zealan­ders now that the Ports of Auck­land have announced they intend to make work­ers redun­dant and con­tract out work at the port.
   We in the Alliance par­ty ask since when has it been a prob­lem for work­ers to have secure well paid jobs? The Ports of Auck­land CEO should be proud of the exist­ing wages and work­ing con­di­tions of his staff, not wag­ing war with them. Con­tract­ing out will mean pri­vate con­trac­tors com­pete to do the work at the low­est price but still make a decent prof­it for their com­pa­ny direc­tors and share­hold­ers.
   The Alliance believes that New Zealand has been in a race to the bot­tom for wages and con­di­tions for the last 20 years. The par­ty believes that only a fight back by work­ers can now redress this imbal­ance such as the one occur­ring at Ports of Auck­land.
   Only strong unions can help secure the high wage, high pro­duc­tiv­i­ty econ­o­my suc­ces­sive gov­ern­ments have long want­ed.
   Thanks to the sup­port of a strong union, Ports of Auck­land work­ers have enjoyed decent wages and work­ing con­di­tions and in return have worked hard for their employ­er. The good pay and con­di­tions enjoyed by wharf work­ers there need to be the norm for all of us if New Zealand is to become the pro­duc­tive high wage econ­o­my John Key talks about.
   Instead the Alliance believes that Ports of Auck­land man­age­ment has insti­gat­ed this dis­pute as part of a plan to make them ready them for pri­vati­sa­tion.
   Make no mis­take, if Ports of Auck­land work­ers lose this fight we all lose. For­get about clos­ing the gap with Aus­tralia. A decent day’s work for a decent day’s pay is an idea that will be con­signed to his­to­ry.

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8. How can I send you some mon­ey for your strike fund. Prefer­ably online bank­ing

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   1. Hi Sheila, you can go to our cam­paign web­site here and it has instruc­tions:

      http://www.saveourport.com/donate‑2/

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9. Work­ing Class Heros
   I remem­ber the 1951 Water siders strike. My father being among the min­ers who went out in sup­port. Many of these men had expe­ri­enced the Depres­sion days of the 1930s. Now many of their desen­dants have nev­er stud­ied his­to­ry enough, to under­stand just how ded­i­cat­ed many of that gen­er­a­tion were. They had fought long and hard for work­ers rights, against extreme right wing tories. The peo­ple of this sad lit­tle coun­try have most­ly ignored the steady erro­sion of work­ers rights. Guess! they all now have uni­ver­si­ty degrees, and pic­ture them­selves as the elite, guess what life is like a bee­hive, there must be work­ers, not all can be Queens. You are right to take a stand. Good Luck.

   Jill­Mal­loy

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10. It is utter­ly ridicu­lous that when the Port Boss­es are told by the courts they can’t try to break the strike by fir­ing union work­ers exer­cis­ing their DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS, they turn around and lock the work­ers who want to vote to go back to work.

    The Ports Boss­es are using bul­ly-boy tac­tics to break a union and it’s mem­bers. This is com­plete­ly unac­cept­able. I’ve post­ed this on Face­book.

    Kia Kaha Work­ers. Hang in there, you aren’t alone.

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