frogblog » lock out http://blog.greens.org.nz hopping along the corridors of power Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:34:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Stop bullying Parliament’s workers http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/10/30/stop-bullying-parliament%e2%80%99s-workers/ http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/10/30/stop-bullying-parliament%e2%80%99s-workers/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:06:49 +0000 frog http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=7338 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.

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