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Council of Trade Unions agrees MSD should only promote decent jobs
The Council of Trade Unions welcomes the Ministry of Social Development’s statement that helping Tranzit recruit for bus-driving jobs that are under dispute was inappropriate. CTU President Richard Wagstaff says the call, made yesterday, is the right one.
"The Ministry’s role should be to get people into decent jobs that can support them and their families. They are not there to be complicit in a job-cutting and wage-cutting exercise. So they made the right call.
"It’s Greater Wellington Regional Council’s refusal to protect drivers’ jobs and incomes in its selection of new bus service providers that caused this mess. With the Council’s blessing, Tranzit was preparing to replace 200 fairly-paid, good jobs with lower paid jobs and worse hours," he says.
"Greater Wellington Regional Council have consistently refused to listen to our repeated warnings about the fiasco their reckless tendering process would lead to."
"The Regional Council and its new
provider need to realise that things have changed and their
race to the bottom at drivers’ expense won’t
stand.
"Wellingtonians rely on their buses to get around
every day, and GWRC needs a change in attitude where
shortcuts aren’t the priority, quality service
is.
"Despite everything, Tranzit still haven’t even
begun discussing a collective employment agreement with the
drivers. They need to start now and bargain in good
faith.
ENDS
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Te Kauae Kaimahi
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings together over 350,000 New Zealand union members in 40 affiliated unions. We are the united voice for working people and their families in New Zealand.
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