by frog
Parliamentary Service has been trying to force the hard working, poorly paid support staff of Parliament to take cuts to their pay package. These are not the ‘political’ staff – they are the people who do things like security, messenger services, and building maintenance at Parliament.
As is only fair, the staff have been resisting cuts to their entitlements, and yesterday held a perfectly legal stop work meeting. Catherine Delahunty and Kevin Hague went along to support them.
Now their employers have responded by threatening a lock out! This is an unreasonable bullying tactic which needs to stop.
Parliamentary Service need to start playing fair and get back to the negotiating table and work out a reasonable settlement.
Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Fri, October 30th, 2009
Tags: Catherine Delahunty, Kevin Hague, lock out, Parliamentary Service, Union, workers
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
yah. Provide your reasons please. One would think...
A lock out? How very “NZ Bus” of them. Next they’ll be wanting private contractors in there…..and be AMAZED when the leaks really being.
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Maybe someone should organise a “non union” picket while the workers are locked out. So the unorganised worker public can use their right of protest in solidarity.
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@OutinFront
Being eventually replaced by private contractors is exactly what the staff fear. One of the things Parliamentary Service is attempting to claw back is the redundancy pay provision in their collective agreement. Given that Parliament is always going to need about the same number of support staff to run, it seems pretty obvious why they are trying to do that.
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That is a very nasty situation I hope that they (workers) stick to their guns.
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But who’s is gonna lock ‘em out? – a bit like a car locking it’s wheels hey….oh Trev Key and Rod (needs to work off the anger).
And here’s me thinking we had hired on-the-run folk from Australia; that ain’t it – they just poor and disgusted!
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