Ports of Auckland families tell their story in online video

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1. Great video, real­ly gets your point across.

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2. Kia kaha to all the work­ers and their fam­i­lies who are on the butt-end of this.
   I am an employ­er in the con­struc­tion indus­try where I have seen the out­come of using “con­tract labour” espe­cial­ly in a reces­sion­ary economy.…it ulti­mate­ly cre­ats peas­ant work­ers put of the many, doing the bid­ding of the rich-and-pow­er­ful few.
   I’m in Christchurch but If its ok with the work­ers i want to come with my staff and join the pick­et line? I will pay the fares, a nights accom­mo­da­tion, and a days wages for any of my staff that want to come with me and I here­by chal­lenge any oth­er right mind­ed employ­er who reads this to do the same.
   It’s time for all “kiwi-bat­tlers-from-strug­gle-street” to stand against the cronie cap­i­tal­ism and greed that is per­me­at­ing our once great egal­i­tar­i­an nation, and it’s behoven on those of us with the means to help make it hap­pen.….

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   1. Hi Peter

      Can I come and work for you! You sound like a great kiwi bloke! I’m being made redun­dant from my govt job in South­land while they are increas­ing the salaries and num­ber of staff at our Nation­al Office! Welling­ton is like Sod­dom and Gomor­rah and the soon­er it implodes the bet­ter!

      kia kaha ma
      Cindy

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      1. Kia ora Cindy,

         What’s your skill set?
         I’m not ask­ing cos I have a job to offer you, but giv­en the growth curve in con­struc­tion that Can­ter­bury is cur­rent­ly on, there is very short­ly going to be an enor­mous demand for good man­agers, admin­is­tra­tors, etc.
         Also if you’re seri­ous about com­ing here I could cer­tain­ly point you to any oppor­tu­ni­ties that I hear about as-well-as giv­ing you a good steer regard­ing the com­pa­nies to to either pur­sue or avoid.

         Nga mihi nui

         Peter R

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         1. More­na Peter

            I’m a statu­to­ry land admin­is­tra­tor at DOC. They are cen­tral­is­ing DOC “back office boys” (yea that’s me lol)and mov­ing work out of the regions (we inci­den­tal­ly have one of the largest con­ser­van­cies in nz)to ser­vice cen­tres in Chch, Dunedin, Welling­ton, Hamil­ton and Hok­i­ti­ka, to gain effi­cien­cies. Not a lot of call for peo­ple with my skills whose dai­ly bread is admin­is­ter­ing the Reserves Act and man­ag­ing con­ser­va­tion lands. What we lose is local knowl­edge — it’s noth­ing new. I’d be impressed if the govt came up with a brand new idea to gain effi­cien­cies but cen­tral­i­sa­tion isn’t one of them. It wont work and even­tu­al­ly the work will become region­al again but in the inter­im jobs, skills, expe­ri­ence and loy­al­ty are lost. I can read sur­veys, leg­is­la­tion, I do project man­age­ment i.e. when we acquire land it usu­al­ly requires sub­di­vi­sion, fenc­ing, weed erad­i­ca­tion, val­u­a­tion. My job is to co-ordi­nate all that includ­ing any fund­ing appli­ca­tions. I run ten­der process for fencers, run bud­gets and over­see the whole project from start to fin­ish. Thanks for your time Peter.

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3. Hi Peter,
   Thank you for a well word­ed and thought out post. I have come onto this site to try and gain some bal­ance on this issue. My cur­rent view is that POAL made the right deci­sion.
   I find your thoughts very inter­est­ing and not what I would have expect­ed from an employ­er, espe­cial­ly see­ing as you don’t seem to exem­pli­fy what you are cur­rent­ly stat­ing will hap­pen. i.e. You sound very fair and you seem to pro­vide a gen­er­ous work­place for your employ­ees, yet you don’t seem to think oth­ers would? I could pos­si­bly accept your con­cerns for unskilled labour, but gov­ern­ment reg­u­lat­ed min­i­mum wage looks after that. As far as skilled work­ers are con­cerned, sure­ly mar­ket com­pe­ti­tion will ensure salaries remain com­pet­i­tive? Just as they do today in many ununionised indus­tries?

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