Progress on Ports of Auckland agreement 

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says good progress has been made towards the set­tle­ment of a Col­lec­tive Employ­ment Agree­ment with Ports of Auck­land Lim­it­ed (POAL).

Mar­itime Union Nation­al Pres­i­dent Gar­ry Parsloe says a stop work meet­ing held this morn­ing (Wednes­day 12 Novem­ber) of MUNZ mem­bers at the Ports of Auck­land endorsed a pro­pos­al from the branch exec­u­tive for a way for­ward, after a pos­i­tive meet­ing with port man­age­ment ear­li­er this week.

Mr Parsloe says a num­ber of out­stand­ing issues had been resolved.

“The new offer from POAL is by far the best to date, and pro­vides a plat­form for mov­ing for­ward to a Col­lec­tive Agree­ment.”

Bar­gain­ing will con­tin­ue to achieve a new Col­lec­tive Agree­ment for the steve­dores and engi­neer­ing staff at the Port.

Mr Parsloe says as a sign of good faith the Union has decid­ed to with­draw pro­ceed­ings alleg­ing under­min­ing of the col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing with Ports of Auck­land Lim­it­ed, which were to be heard at the Employ­ment Court from 17 Novem­ber 2014.