Auckland port workers have won a court injunction against having their jobs contracted out until mid-May, but with no guarantee of being allowed back on the wharves.
The port company has also undertaken to pay eight days’ wages tomorrow to permanent staff who voted last Thursday to end a four-week strike but have not been allowed back.
Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly hailed the injunction yesterday from the Employment Court as recognition that a legal case on behalf of 235 unionised workers against the council-owned company “is very strong”.
“In issuing the injunction, the court is acknowledging it is an arguable case that all of the port’s activities in relation to collective bargaining may not have been lawful,” she said.