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| Thread ID: 123609 | 2012-03-06 22:03:00 | Maritime Union - What a good job they did. | Iantech (16386) | PC World Chat |
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| 1263438 | 2012-03-07 03:03:00 | Port work has been the holy grail for manual labourers for decades, Light work, high pay. As far as i can remember i always thought the same. Fonterra is similar, 27 bucks an hour for retipping powder today |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1263439 | 2012-03-07 03:09:00 | Shouldnt we all be concerned? If you get offered a slightly worst offer than the current one, and you dont agree..you get sacked.. dangerous precedent this sets... |
sportsboy83 (16326) | ||
| 1263440 | 2012-03-07 05:36:00 | If your on huge money and you then get greedy you should look out | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1263441 | 2012-03-07 05:56:00 | As far as i can remember i always thought the same. Fonterra is similar, 27 bucks an hour for retipping powder today Where did you get that from? Friend of mine worked in the cheese line, she sure didn't get anything like that. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1263442 | 2012-03-07 08:40:00 | Shouldnt we all be concerned? If you get offered a slightly worst offer than the current one, and you dont agree..you get sacked.. dangerous precedent this sets... Yes. Trade unions are important and perhaps in this liberal age we have forgotten the blood and pain paid by employee activists in the past. Employment conditions used to be abysmal up till the 1950s. And I have enough years under my belt to remember the reverse situation in the 1970s and early 1980s when unions were ascendant and controlled our economy. In those days, as Metla said above, getting a job on the waterfront or in the freezing works was like a lotto win. I was lucky enough to work in a freezing works in the early 80s and the money paid for limited effort was fantastic. I knew guys who paid off small farms and businesses at the works. Sadly those days are long gone. I hadn't realised the waterfront had retained its exalted position. The average pay for a POA worker is $93,000pa. As a comparison, there are decent people on PF1 who would dream of that income, even worse had to close businesses or been made redundant. So Sportsboy your point is well made but...I'm struggling to express it...nothing in life is guaranteed. Many New Zealanders have faced far far worse in the current recession. Not a lower pay offer but no job at all. We are closing down. Finito. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 1263443 | 2012-03-07 08:45:00 | Thegoing rate at the affco works is $20 an hour, much better then the minimim wage, and probally more then a lot of skilled people earn in Wanganui. | Metla (12) | ||
| 1263444 | 2012-03-07 21:38:00 | Where did you get that from? Friend of mine worked in the cheese line, she sure didn't get anything like that. Going rate in Hawera today, friend is working there right now |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1263445 | 2012-03-07 22:30:00 | From the link a few pages back Permanent lasher $20.00 per hour Casual lashing $17.12 per hour Overtime lashing by stevedores $22.48 per Not bad, but hardly outrageous money. So something still doesnt add up. Straddle drivers do get more, as would be expected. We should be looking at the median wage, not the average wage. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1263446 | 2012-03-07 22:37:00 | I have always been happy to be in paid employment, and lets not pretend the wharfies were going to be underpaid or overworked. You forgot to mention the other perks of the job but I suppose they are fewer these days with containers and very few crates to drop.:) |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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