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The Maritime Union says it will fight a decision to sack workers at the Ports of Auckland.
Ports of Auckland management today announced they are effectively shutting down the permanent workforce at the Bledisloe Terminal at the Ports of Auckland with the loss of 28 jobs.
Maritime Union of New Zealand Local 13 President Denis Carlisle says the Union is looking at all the options to save jobs.
Read MoreThe Maritime Union is taking action to recover the unpaid wages of a Russian crew aboard an arrested ship in the Ports of Auckland.
Maritime Union Local 13 President Denis Carlisle says the Union has been assisting the crew aboard the ‘Southern Pearl’ and is now representing the crew members.
Read MoreThe Maritime Union of New Zealand has confirmed strike action at the Ports of Auckland for Tuesday 2 December and Wednesday 3 December 2008.
Fourteen days notice of the strike action was given to the Ports of Auckland management early this afternoon by Maritime Union Local 13, which represents waterfront and other workers at the Port.
Read MoreThe Maritime Union of New Zealand will return to mediation on Friday with Ports of Auckland management following mediation today in Auckland.
Read MoreThe Maritime Union says it is committed to a resolution in the Ports of Auckland dispute, and members will be discussing a way forward during a one day strike that starts tonight.
Around 300 workers in the Ports of Auckland container terminal stevedoring, road, rail, shuttle and engineering services areas will withdraw labour for a 24 hour period starting at 10.59pm on Tuesday 2 December.
Read MoreThe Maritime Union of New Zealand says it does not accept the Ports of Auckland proposal to slash 30 jobs.
Maritime Union Local 13 Auckland Waterfront Branch President Denis Carlisle says the union met today with Ports of Auckland management to discuss the proposal.
He says the Union is concerned with the level of job losses and does not accept the reasons given by management.
Read MoreMaritime Union Local 13 President Denis Carlisle argues in the New Zealand Herald that attempts to rehash the privatization of the Ports of Auckland are pointless.
Read MoreThe Maritime Union of New Zealand says that any proposal to privatize the Ports of Auckland would create a “perfect storm of opposition.”
Maritime Union Local 13 President Denis Carlisle says those pushing the plan were people out of time.
“There is obviously a faction out there who want to bring back port privatization plans from the dead.”
Mr Carlisle says that the privatization strategy with the Ports of Auckland failed in the 1990s due to mass public opposition and recent attempts to part-privatize the Ports of Lyttelton had also ended in failure.
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