Ports of Auckland workers meet to discuss facilitator’s findings

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand mem­bers at the Ports of Auck­land met this morn­ing to look at the rec­om­men­da­tions of the Employ­ment Rela­tions Author­i­ty facil­i­ta­tor on the dis­pute.

Mar­itime Union Nation­al Pres­i­dent Gar­ry Parsloe says a full and com­pre­hen­sive report on the facil­i­ta­tor’s con­fi­den­tial rec­om­men­da­tions was giv­en to Ports of Auck­land work­ers at the meet­ing.

He says the Union will be going back into facil­i­ta­tion with Ports of Auck­land man­age­ment at 6pm today.

The Union would be seek­ing clar­i­fi­ca­tion of some of the facil­i­ta­tor’s rec­om­men­da­tions, and will be dis­cussing with the facil­i­ta­tor the process mov­ing for­ward to secure a col­lec­tive employ­ment agree­ment.

Mr Parsloe says there would be a fair bit of nego­ti­a­tion required to go for­ward but the Mar­itime Union was focussed on progress towards a set­tle­ment.