Ports of Auckland families tell their story in online video

Ports of Auck­land work­ers and their fam­i­lies strug­gling to defend secure jobs and their liveli­hoods have tak­en their mes­sage to the peo­ple in a three minute online video.

The work­ers and their fam­i­lies explain how changes being pro­mot­ed by man­age­ment of the Auck­land City owned port will affect their fam­i­lies.

Mar­itime Union Nation­al Pres­i­dent Gar­ry Parsloe says the video pro­vides a short but hard hit­ting insight into the real issues of casu­al­iza­tion and con­tract­ing out.

“Our mem­bers are hard work­ing fam­i­ly peo­ple and once peo­ple see this video, they will appre­ci­ate what is at stake in this dis­pute.”

Mr Parsloe says the work­ers at the Port have been vil­i­fied by their employ­er in pub­lic, even though some have worked at the port for decades, con­tribut­ing to its suc­cess and con­tribut­ing to Auck­land as ratepay­ers and cit­i­zens.