| Forum Home | ||||
| PC World Chat | ||||
| Thread ID: 123424 | 2012-02-23 17:49:00 | What Do You Aucklanders Think Of The 3 Week Port Strike And Who's Side Are You On. | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1260971 | 2012-02-23 17:49:00 | Here. (www.nzherald.co.nz)Or don't you really care. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1260972 | 2012-02-23 18:01:00 | Very definitely on the side of the port management. In my opinion, the union is being extremely unreasonable in this case, and excessively militant. To the best of my knowledge the workers in question already had excellent pay and working conditions. They also don't seem to realise that damaging the port reduces the number of available jobs, which means redundancies - you can't just lose customers like Fonterra without some ramifications. [Edit: Although I'm not an Aucklander as per the thread title.] |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1260973 | 2012-02-23 18:28:00 | The workers are just being a greedy lot of individuals. They get very well paid ($91k per year) for work that is no more skilled than a lot of others. Truck drivers for example. They work on current agreements 23hrs for every 40hrs they are paid for. It works like this. A shift is for 8 hrs. If you start a shift you get paid for 8 hrs even if work is completed in 3 hrs, if work continues after an 8 hr shift, even for a few minutes, you get paid for 12 hrs. It is easy to see why the union likes it that way and are resistant to any change. Cannot blame them for that I guess. Not many of us would refuse money for not working. The POA management wishes to pay for hours actually worked as happens at Tauranga. The rate of pay would still be very good. Certainly far better than a lot of very highly educated/trained/skilled people amongst you could hope to be paid. I am all for looking after workers and keeping an eye on management however in this case I believe the Union leaders are just manipulating the situation in their own interest rather than that of the workers who look likely to be out of a job if things continue as at present. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1260974 | 2012-02-23 18:33:00 | Yes I agree with you both. I remember knowing someone who worked at the port of Napier and use to skit about turning up for work and because there was none got sent home and got 8 Hrs pay. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1260975 | 2012-02-23 18:45:00 | I am totally on managements side. The current situation has a corrupt feel to it, much like the situation in USA, run by Mafia. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1260976 | 2012-02-23 19:02:00 | I wish the Port Company would sack everyone of them who are protesting. Hire some new hands and start again and get on with it. And I hate that Helen Kelly cow, someone wants to lock her in a container and export her to Somalia. |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1260977 | 2012-02-23 19:32:00 | I am totally on managements side. The current situation has a corrupt feel to it, much like the situation in USA, run by Mafia. I wish the Port Company would sack everyone of them who are protesting. Hire some new hands and start again and get on with it. And I hate that Helen Kelly cow, someone wants to lock her in a container and export her to Somalia. X2. This union is nothing more than an organised rort, and the port workers job, a sinecure. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1260978 | 2012-02-23 19:34:00 | I have no idea what's going on :stare: | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1260979 | 2012-02-23 19:37:00 | Tsk, Tsk, Tsk, we don't want them back. :D HERE (www.sunlive.co.nz) :lol: Me think the workers have been absolutely screwed by their Union. So sad too bad. :banana |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1260980 | 2012-02-23 19:40:00 | I have no idea what's going on :stare: Go back to Post #1. Do not pass go. Read Trev's HERE (www.nzherald.co.nz) Voila :D |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | |||||