Dirty Rich Prick Wharfies
Background Detail
· Ports of Auckland’s offer to staff involved rolling over the existing CA with no changes to terms and conditions, a commitment to work collaborative with staff and the union on a range of performance initiatives, and a range of major concession:
o No redundancies as a result of these initiatives during the term of the agreement
o No further contracting out of labour during the term of the agreement
o A 2.5% pay increase
o A $200 signing bonus in lieu of back-pay.
· The union claims that hourly rates are higher for IEAs.
o Some of the hourly rates in the IEAs are higher. This reflects greater flexibility in working hours under IEAs and the lack of other benefits which appear in the Collective Agreement
o The overall employment cost is similar
o There are only seven stevedores on IEAs out of a total of more than 300.
· The union objects to the past out-sourcing of shuttle work formerly performed by union employees
o Ports of Auckland underwent a fair and comprehensive consultation process prior to introducing this contract in 2010
o Only four union members’ jobs were displaced and of these all were offered redeployment to other roles within the Port; one accepted redeployment and three took up voluntary redundancy.
· POAL has generous wage and benefit packages for staff under the Collective Agreement. For the year ended 30 June 2011:
o Average wage for a full time stevedore at POAL was $91,480
o Average wage for a part time stevedore at POAL was $65,518
o 53% of full time stevedores (123 individuals) earned over $80,000
o 28% (43 individuals) earned over $100,000 with the highest earner making $122,000
· POAL provides:
o Southern Cross medical insurance for the employee and family
o Sick leave of up to 15 days per annum accumulating to 45 days over three years
o Fully paid in house training (no student loans required) to become a lasher, straddle and crane driver
o Five weeks annual leave for shift workers
· Embedded inflexibilities and old-fashioned work practices mean that labour utilisation at POAL is approx. 65% compared to approx. 80% at Port of Tauranga:
o POAL’s crane drivers and deck foremen work on average 5.33 hours for every 8 paid
o Straddle drivers work an average 6 hours out of every 8 paid
o One recent example: stevedores worked 2 hours on an overtime shift but were paid for the whole 8 hour shift.
posted by Cactus Kate at 9:53 AM
10 Comments:
Wonder how the union members down at the Warehouse or Countdown feel about this?
Mind you, any nurse with an ounce of intelligence can easily pull $100k+ by doing a bit of night and weekend work...
I feel nothing by antipathy towards the Nurses Union - although most people would feel empathy - fools.
WOW
CACTUS KATE
you should stop bludging off the back of the HK Chinese
and come back home
......and become a stevedore
you make it sound so attractive!!
doubt you have ever personally done any actual REAL work though
so you probably wouldn't qualify for the 'free' training
What exactly does a Stevedore do ? What qualifications are required ? Is the job risky ?
Jeeeeezus!
Stevedores getting $91K!
CK - I'm a PROGRAMMER and I don't get that much!
These BASTARDS are bleeding the f**king country dry.
Sack the whole damned lot of them. Greedy, ungrateful pricks.
I believe that employment law actually requires shift workers to get an extra week of leave a year (i.e. 5 is standard for shift workers).
1.21pm - "real work" - define that?
Only the top 1/3rd of HK taxpayers actually pay any income tax at all. Therefore 2/3rd are actually bludging off me. Anyway, don't let your wet dreams get in the way of a silly comment you won't put your name to.
I am not sure why a programmer should earn more than a dock worker. Programmers are like cell phones. Used to be special, now everyone has one.
The employers can sack them and start a-fresh and customers can always go to Tauranga.
Belligerent workers are one way in which weak firms get culled and strong firms emerge to replace them.
Clearly the Maritime Union thinks Tony Gibson is no Alan Joyce. We’ll find out soon enough.
Mind you, any nurse with an ounce of intelligence can easily pull $100k+ by doing a bit of night and weekend work...
Bullshit Horace.
As the husband of a highly experienced senior theatre nurse working public, the max that can be expected for clinical work is 80-85k doing a shitload of OT / penal rate work.
$100k+ is only available offshore.
I wonder if they'll hire me on those terms if I promise not to join the union??
What probably grates on Tony Gibson more is he was ex NZ Country Manager for Maersk Line and now those sneaky Danes have pulled a service.
That being said, I'm sure the Danes would have made Tauranga drop their pants to pick up that service. The Danes do nothing if there's not a couple of bucks in it (i.e while they will point to the strikes as *a* reason, it wont be the only reason).
Horace, you are amazing about Nurses salaries
Why the hell didnt my partner know about this ?
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