Ports of Auckland management negligent – Council of Trade Unions

Despite Port employ­ers acknowl­edg­ing in Medi­a­tion today that a pro­pos­al tabled by the Mar­itime Union went “a con­sid­er­able way to meet­ing its labour allo­ca­tion issues and was big in a finan­cial sense to the Port” the Port employ­ers reject­ed the oppor­tu­ni­ty to set­tle this dis­pute unless the work­ers con­cede com­plete man­age­r­i­al dis­cre­tion to the employ­er over the man­ner in which they are employed.

CTU Pres­i­dent Helen Kel­ly, who attend­ed the medi­a­tion today, said the man­age­ment were now act­ing irre­spon­si­bly “today they effec­tive­ly acknowl­edged a deal was on the table but they unwill­ing to set­tle. The work­ers at the port now have no choice but to con­tin­ue cam­paign­ing to pro­tect their reg­u­lar employ­ment, which will inevitably include indus­tri­al activ­i­ty.”

“To put this asset owned by the peo­ple of Auck­land in such a pre­car­i­ous posi­tion, for no obvi­ous rea­son, is neg­li­gent in the extreme,” said Helen Kel­ly.