Wharfies have met this morning to decide on any future industrial action in the long-running dispute with the Ports of Auckland.
Management were expected to provide details of potential redundancies on Friday but Maritime Union President Gary Parsloe says not all the information was available.
However, he says that should be made clear today.
“We’re waiting on the information that the port company did not have ready, we’ve asked them to get that to us and they have said ‘yes’,” says Mr Parsloe. “We will get that and be able to look at the situation in its entirety, I hope.”
Workers will be given details of redundancy plans at the meeting, which started at 8am.
Multiple negotiations have fallen through in the bitter wrangling which has now gone on four months.
Mr Parsloe says even after more details are known of job losses the dispute will be far from over.
“They [workers] probably won’t take kindly to the fact that the company intend to make them all redundant, and then offer them all their jobs back again on different conditions or lesser conditions,” he says. “They’ll probably react to that and we’ll need to have a look at what action we’ll require, to take some action to defend ourselves in some way.”
He says with jobs on the line it is important workers get all the information available as quickly as possible.
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