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In March, ILWU delegates stood in solidarity with the Maritime Union of New Zealand against outsourcing and anti-union tactics employed by POAL. Pictured: MUNZ officers Joe Fleetwood and Garry Parsloe, with ILWU International Vice President-Mainland Ray Familathe in the center. ITF comment on Ports of Auckland, New Zealand: In the wake of initial signs [...] 
Garry Parsloe, President of MUNZ, accepts a check from ILWU Local 52 in March, presented by Local 52 President Andrea Stevenson to support MUNZ workers during their lockout. Photo by ILWU Local 40 President Dawn Des Brisay. The Maritime Union has welcomed moves by the owners of Ports of Auckland to ensure it acts as [...] The Maritime Union of New Zealand has rejected what it called a “cut and paste” collective agreement offer from the Ports of Auckland after the first day of mediation between the two parties. The two-day mediation is intended to work through the port’s offer of a collective agreement to the union workforce, which it had [...] MUNZ victory in Auckland Auckland wharfies are today relieved to hear that they can return to work to get the Port up and running again for Auckland. Following further hearings before the Employment Court this morning, Ports of Auckland has withdrawn its lockout notice and stopped its plan to dismiss its workforce and contract [...] ILWU VP Ray Familathe with MUNZ President Garry Parsloe, March 2012. Photo by Dawn Des Brisay, ILWU Local 40 President. Ports of Auckland has agreed to pay some of its unionised workers a week’s wages before a planned lockout on April 6. An Employment Court judge today heard the company’s “good faith” pledge to [...] From SaveOurPort.com From SaveOurPort.com: Today’s injunction stopping Ports of Auckland progressing its plans to dismiss and replace its workforce, combined with the company’s plan of an indefinite lockout, leaves Auckland Council with no choice but to intervene to find a workable solution to the industrial dispute, the Maritime Union said today. Today the Employment [...] The battle between the Ports of Auckland and its wharfies escalated again yesterday, despite both sides agreeing to head back to mediation. As watersiders met at noon to vote on whether to end their current strike the port company issued the Maritime Union with a notice locking the workers out. It has given [...] MUNZ longshoremen have been joined on a waterfront picket line by about 60 Auckland University students. New Zealand Herald photo. Auckland university students and politicians have joined wharfies protesting a “disturbing” move to lock them out of Ports of Auckland. Ports workers were served an official lockout notice from Ports of Auckland management this [...] Nearly 300 sacked wharfies have been served a lock out notice by Ports of Auckland, just a day after learning they will be getting their jobs back, the union claims. The Maritime Union said ports workers were served an official lock out notice from Ports of Auckland this morning, to take effect in two weeks. [...] Note: The battle for union jobs in New Zealand has frequent updates. Check back soon to learn the latest. From the New Zealand Herald: Nearly 300 sacked port workers have won back their jobs after Ports of Auckland’s u-turn decision to drop moves to replace them with contractors and re-enter collective agreement talks with the [...]
‘Toot for support’ rally photo from New Zealand, March 2012. Dawn Des Brisay photo. The bitter industrial dispute between the Ports of Auckland and the Maritime Union heads to the Employment Court this morning for a private conference ahead of a fuller public hearing next week. A legally enforced ceasefire late on Thursday [...] ILWU shows solidarity with MUNZ in New Zealand, March 2012. Photo by Melvin MacKay, ILWU Local 10. Efforts to recruit a replacement workforce for Auckland’s strike-ridden port have been delayed for at least two more days by a legal challenge from the Maritime Union. So have other moves by the council-owned port company to [...] Watch news video of the rally here Two thousand people marched in solidarity for the Maritime Union workers who lost their jobs this week and now the Australian Maritime Union have weighed in too – with its members refusing to unload a ship that was worked on by non-union staff in Auckland. “These guys are [...] The Maritime Union says it will take legal action over the “unlawful” dismissal of nearly 300 workers. Port of Auckland, the council-owned port company, faces an $11.5 million redundancy payout and weeks of disruption after a decision yesterday to make redundant almost 300 workers and replace them with contractors. Following the decision, the union is [...] Ports of Auckland workers sacked by management; fight is on. Photo from SaveOurPort.com New Zealand’s Ports of Auckland announced it was sacking almost 300 striking dock workers Wednesday, escalating a long-running industrial dispute in the country’s largest city. The Maritime Union of New Zealand said the sacked workers were “gutted” at the port’s action, [...] |
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