Saturday in New Zealand: MUNZ officers Joe Fleetwood and Garry Parsloe get support from the ILWU delegation including International Vice President-Mainland Ray Familathe, center.
Ports of Auckland has twisted the knife in the bitter wharfside dispute, announcing [Friday] it has signed up two companies to replace the almost 300 staff it sacked on Monday.
While MUNZ awaits an Employment Court hearing on March 26 about whether POAL can legally sack workers, either in negotiations or when on strike, POAL yesterday announced contracts with Drake New Zealand and AWF Group as “competitive stevedore partners”.
MUNZ national president Garry Parsloe claimed to the Otago Daily Times POAL had planned for months to replace the staff, citing a nine-month-old POAL strategy paper.
“You have to bargain in good faith and advertising people’s jobs at the same time is not good faith,” Mr Parsloe said of POAL job vacancies which appeared in Australian media weeks ago.