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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