The Herald is reporting that POA is about to start mass redundancies.
This is sad for the workers who will lose their jobs, however this was going to happen. By taking on the Port and keeping on striking they ran the risk of losing their own jobs. This will now be occurring.
The Port's productivity is vital for an exporting Nation, and we can not simply just ship everything down to Tauranga (despite the benefits for Kiwirail). The council signed the Unions death warrant when they asked for increased profits. The only way of generating this is to increase productivity and when you have workers on shift even when their is no ship in the port to unload it begs the question why are they still paying them.
However it is great news that the Unions do not run New Zealand considering that in the 1950s they tried to bring New Zealand to it's knees. And as there will be fewer Union members this means that Labour will have less funding.
This is sad for the workers who will lose their jobs, however this was going to happen. By taking on the Port and keeping on striking they ran the risk of losing their own jobs. This will now be occurring.
The Port's productivity is vital for an exporting Nation, and we can not simply just ship everything down to Tauranga (despite the benefits for Kiwirail). The council signed the Unions death warrant when they asked for increased profits. The only way of generating this is to increase productivity and when you have workers on shift even when their is no ship in the port to unload it begs the question why are they still paying them.
However it is great news that the Unions do not run New Zealand considering that in the 1950s they tried to bring New Zealand to it's knees. And as there will be fewer Union members this means that Labour will have less funding.
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