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 previously attempted to replace and lock out, before returning to the bargaining table after the port suffered setbacks in the Employment Court.
MUNZ president Gary Parsloe dismissed the offer, saying “it just looks like a cut and paste of rhetoric from December – there is nothing fresh at all. All we want is a clause that says no contracting out. There is nothing in there that gives us any job security.”