Port of Auckland has today been handed a $500,000 fine as it was sentenced over the death of stevedore Pala’amo Kalati. Kalati was killed when a container.
The union representing port workers wants a national inquiry into port safety following the death of a worker this morning at Ports of Auckland.
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A haka by distraught shipping workers rang out at the Ports of Auckland (POAL) as the body of a 26-year-old new father was transported from the scene of a
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Former MP Tau Henare, former Labour Party campaign manager and union official Shane Te Pou, and First Union general secretary Robert Reid delivered the written statement just after 10am at the Port of Auckland offices, in an exchange that took no longer than five minutes.
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Tau Henare, Shane Te Pou and Robert Reid delivered a letter to the POAL Offices on Fergusson Wharf, requesting Tony Gibson’s resignation over safety concerns. The letter calls on Ports of Auckland chairman Bill Osborne to ask Gibson to resign. In a media stand-up prior to the meeting, Henare said the three were there to give Gibson and Osborne an opportunity “to do the right thing” which was “to stand down”.