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Port Strike: It’s all my fault

by Whaleoil on December 19, 2011

Apparently the latest strike action at the Ports of Auckland is all my fault:

The Maritime Union says that the Ports of Auckland management has deliberately undermined negotiations by releasing letters to its employees to hostile political activists.

Maritime Union National President Garry Parsloe says the far right wing political blogger Cameron Slater of Whale Oil blog was boasting on his website about being given letters about current negotiations intended for Ports of Auckland employees by Ports of Auckland management.

The letters had been uploaded into the public domain and used as the basis for vituperative attacks on Ports of Auckland workers by the blog.

Mr Parsloe says this “massive disrespect” by management had been greeted with disbelief by Maritime Union members at Ports of Auckland.

“Not only has Ports of Auckland CEO Tony Gibson gone against the specific requests of Maritime Union members to negotiate through their elected officials rather than bombarding them with letters, he has now gone beyond the pale by sending hostile political activists complete misinformation about wages and confidential letters to his own staff.”

That has made my Christmas. See blogging does make a difference. What the union is really pissed about is that I have called them on their lies.

As Corporal Jones once said “They don’t like it up them”.

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  • MANINBLACK

    Massive respect for that! they are a pack of moaning cunts. If they dont like their jobs, get new ones.
    On another note, i like it how they call you a ‘far right wing blogger’. i hardly think you are far right- they are just trying to paint your point of views as extremist.
    They are a pack of lazy moaning union hacks left over from the 60′s.

    • Super Guest

       Anything left of socialism is “far right” to these guys.

      • diabolos

        Most couldnt even spell socialist – thats how far being on a large income and voting national distances you from reality.

        They are representing a secret bloc of National voters.

      • Super Guest

        Do you have any proof of this nonsense? Or are you just reaching into that cavernous void you sit on and pulling out paranoid conspiracy theories? Sure you wouldn’t feel more at home at another blog, perhaps aliensarecontrollingourbanksandwallstreetkilledmydog.com?

      • diabolos

        superguest – go back over the posts about the dispute – you will find responses from at least two union members who state they are members and vote national… its on this blog … not my imagination… do the work and reap the reward.

    • diabolos

      massive – absolutely massive – they are actually secret national voters who are on $90K a year plus …

      bwaaahaaahaaahaaa etc etc  ”Respec…!!!”  I can see you doing an impression of a bitch niggah rap singer when saying some of the stuff you do.  Into Graffitti at all?

      Churr

      • frosty

        fuck you’re a tosser.

      • Euan Rt

        quickly losing my shred of respect for you D. They’re idiots whoever they vote for – selfish, lying, troughers.

      • diabolos

        Fact is – they are what you might call unionists of convenience – much like a ship registered with a panamanian flag.

        You are both fuck and blinding me when i am in actual fact agreeing with you.  Its debatable who is the tosser.

        As to your “respect” – some of you have no respect for yourselves – why would i want to have what passes for “respect” from any of you.

  • http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/ Inventory2

    Great stuff Cam. Now, do you think you can call in a few favours and get them deregistered?

  • Simo

    Gave them all the middle finger as I drove past real slow, got the desired result back
    The queue for their jobs would run 3 blocks……

  • diabolos

    The joke of it all  -  is that the far right ‘blogger’ has in actual fact helped uncover a secret National Party coven of people on $90K per annum who vote National but use the Union to get special privileges.

    Wonder how many more secret National Party voting blocs exist around the country.

    I’m all for de registering any group who represents people who dont need representing.  Bring in cheap asian labour and that will really put the cat among the pigeons.  Do it!  I dare you.  I can see a container load coming in direct from Mumbai soon.

    • Super Guest

      What a load of tinfoil hat rubbish.

      • diabolos

        Go fuck yourself SuperGuest – it would have more meaning than any of the drivel you are saying.

    • Anonymous

      Where you been D? They are already here.

      • diabolos

        I really do wish that people would understand that i am not effectively attacking the right or the National Party.  I am only repeating the truth – they are highly paid opportunists using the union as a blind for their greed.  Fact

      • diabolos

        And yep Titan (i really like that name) they are already here.  The containers have been arriving for some years now.

      • Euan Rt

        you want to be understood but not respected D? I expect most people who are not respected would feel misunderstood. Poor D.

      • diabolos

        @euanrt:disqus mate you are the reason i used to use to make my kids realise not everyone was ‘onto it’ in life.

        You dont read – you probably dont write very well – and your levels of comprehension are infantile.

        Go and play with yourself little fellow …

    • Mooloo

      Stating the obvious big D. Socialist democtats no longer have any relevance to 99% of blue collars . Since when would My little pony or White Knight Shearer have anything in common with The folks that get dirty  working for a living. When Muldoon was in his hay day blue collar workers loved him. Key has the same populist tendancies, with more polish and greater political intuition than Muldoon who was an old fashioned bully.
      Is it any worse Wharfies bludging a living than say Bankers bludging a living off mass ive fee’s they don’t earn. It’ is what it is . Be fucked the lot of them I say.   

      • diabolos

        Mate you are so right.  Muldoon was a great PM … i disagree about Key – Key is a product of this time .. short timeframe and fucked tomorrow – typical short term thinker – currency trader and whore to the market.  Key doesnt even compare to Muldoon – he is a media driven dribbling cardboard cutout.

        Shearer and the fat gay guy are the biggest mistake labour have ever made since allowing roger douglas to be a member of the labour party.

        The people want and crave leadership…. as Lenin said – “power was lying in the gutters…” or words to that effect.   National arent giving any leadership.  Their message is …

        “aspiration – sell a few things off – get out to work you lazy bastards … we will help you … we need more jobs … there are no more jobs …. aspiration ….”

        Like a very rotten hollow treetrunk really.

  • Anonymous

    “…..attacks on Ports of Auckland workers”. 
    Uh….. these striking union pricks could hardly be called “workers”. 

    • diabolos

      They’re on 90K per annum plus Thor – for fucks sake – they will be moaning into their beer in front of a portrait of that Great Charlatan Sir Michael Fay.

      I think you folk need a new paradigm – or at least a bloody good history reference book

      • Dion

        If we were to follow your logic, Hone Harawira would be rushing off to join Act now that he’s “earning” ~$140k / year.

      • diabolos

        You dont get it Dion … you just dont get it … parliamentarians are a different animal … they are outside the pale …

  • Anonymous

    There always should be an advocacy for employees;
    just, not burdened by the type of twisted logic that Unions (Notice it’s one letter off ‘Onions’ ?) employ.

  • GPT

    Well done.

    Note the massive hypocrisy.  It’s ok for the Union to tell the world their interpretation of the correspondence but forbid the thought of having the actual source documents complained of put in the public domain.

  • Thorn

    To the words of The People’s Flag:

    The working class can kiss my arse.
    I’ve got the foreman’s job at last.
    You are out of work and on the dole,
    You can shove your strike back up your hole.

  • Anonymous

    To the tune of “The People’s Flag” –
    The unionists are greedy pricks
    They’re playing with their tiny dicks
    “So what if ships are sitting there?
    We’ll stick our placards in the air.”
    More money is just what we need
    ‘Cos 91K’s chicken-feed
    We can’t be arsed to go to work
    Our way of life is just to shirk.

  • politically unstable

    D,  I think you are on the money and thats why none of the Labour MP’s are showing any public support…not even Little. Parsloe is being taken for a ride!!

    • Gazzaw

      And neither are the Tauranga wharfies complaining. Bloody capitalists will be rolling in the overtime so kindly donated by their Auckland comrades.

    • diabolos

      Exactly – its all a great big embarassment and they bloody well know it.

      The real union constituency are in the underfunded and largely ineffective unions (and there is a correlation with income levels of members) such as NDU and Unite

      Labour are a bunch of cowards and they’ve sold their own ideology out.  Like Esau selling his birthright for a mess of pottage – in this case for a ‘mess’ of “shearer and the fat gay guy”

    • diabolos

      Little represents EPMU .. again a “union” of the well remunerated and probably National voting clique.

  • Max_power

    This is merely the opening salvo in massive upcoming industrial obstruction both passive and active throughout this entire next term.

    The unions will care not about wrecking NZ, provided they can credibly in their supporters eyes avoid that charge and instead blame the outcomes upon Key’s “selfish anti-worker policies.”

    All they will care about is discrediting Key and their hated opponents and fuck the good ship NZ because we’re not as important as them winning this next election.

    With Winston doing his usual skillful job of destructive innuendo and lies, a style to which Key is highly vulnerable and possibly won’t handle very well in the House.

    • diabolos

      have to say mate – thats bullshit.  This “union” represents people on $90K perannum plus – they dont represent any intention on behalf of the union movement.

      Most unions and unionists do care about nz.  It seems that as you go up the earnings ladder the less they care about New Zealand judging by this particular group.

      It isnt an opening Salvo of anything.  Its a minor orgasmic wank in the backyard of the secret National voting bloc that has imbibed a bit too much of the “aspiration” creed from Johnny boy and his sycophants.  They need Joycey boy to ringem up and threaten them and then they will settle down.

      These people let me state .. ARE NOT COMMUNISTS, SOCIALISTS OR LABOUR VOTERS … Most voted National … got it … no – ok go back and read it again

      • Guest

        ”
        Most unions and unionists do care about nz ”

        If you’re talking about the general members I would say that from my personal experience of being a member of both the EPMU and PSA (where I was also a Union Rep) that they care no more or less about NZ than most other people. 

        If you’re talking about the leadership I would have to say that statement is complete bollocks and the leaders are far more interested in protecting their own personal stations that their roles provide them even at the expense of their own membership.

        At least the PSA was pretty up front about this and made sure all their reps knew how to maximise their “benefits”.

      • diabolos

        @8404dcfdae631dca53b7baebf3e1c21c:disqus - i dont actually understand your reply.

        Some unionists are cunts – some are not – some are really good people

        This is a picture of humanity

        Is this what you mean….

        Or are National Party people perfect non-cunt people …

        I would like to know ….

      • Peter Wilson

        What is this new theory sir?

        They’re earning 90k + therefore they must vote National, and therefore don’t care about the country. I mean…hello.

        Where does that leave, say, PSA, or the PPTA?  Or do you think they all vote National. What’s the average salary in the PSA?

        Even if they voted National, so what. Just shows you how selfish they are. Thinking (mistakenly) if they vote National they can line their pockets even more.

        The last thing a principled party like National needs are former socialists who now see the error of their ways.

      • motorizer

        Geezus. i was thinking to myself “self, this diabolos guy loves himself”. so decided that i wouldnt read any more of his comments, seeing how he goes on and on and is VERY self important and all. but FUCK!!!! EVERY FUCKIN SECOND COMMENT IS FROM HIM!!!!

        YOU WOULD THINK THIS WAS THE FUCKING DIABOLOS SHOW!!!

        Me thinks this tosser has too much time on his hands and way to high opinion of himself. why dont you give it a rest.maybe.

      • diabolos

        @884e9539ac9ca43aed92db7b619d693f:disqus - mate i loved your comment – still chuckling today.

        Welcome my pretties – to the “diabolos show”

        We’re all having a glam time

        Self love isnt the sole preserve of you lot you know…

    • Alex

      I agree that the Unions will try to flex muscle as they become more and more frustrated by the inability of Labour to mount effective opposition.  I also agree with your assessment of WP.  Accordingly, I think National needs to start building bridges with NZF .  WP and NZF are anti-union so they’re on the same wavelength as National in that respect.  While I think WP should not be a Minister, I do wonder if the NZF-Nat current relationship needs to move out of the 90s and move on.

  • Karl Laird

    Diabolos – and how do you know which way most voted; or are you extrapolating wildly from the couple of alleged comments?

    What I do see is a Union acting like Unions have almost always acted; and possibly going to get the same results as the meatworks Unions and manage to get the whole damn lot shutdown.
    One positive thing would be Auckland traffic has been way better on the days they are striking…

    • diabolos

      Karl – i join the unwashed ranks of many on this ‘blog’ extrapolating wildly from limited data … dont you??

      The facts are this …

      #1  Most of the members are paid $90 K perannum plus

      #2  It has been verified by at least two commenters that they are union members (of the aforesaid union) and are National Voters

      #3  There is a link between income level and voting behaviours (with exceptions)

      Plus i might actually be in a position to know more than i am letting on.

      Then again i might be bluffing to get a reaction (never seen that here before i bet ….)

      • Killjoy

        Diabolos. I like having fair debates and hearing peoples opinion on a matter but I don’t like when people arrogantly slander others as you so often do to get the reaction you do.
        Case in point: The last few of Cams blogs where you come back to rubbishing others and making the same tired points (that are very loosely supported by “fact”).
        You say that as the port workers are on $90k p.a. and a couple of people claim to be POA employees and in the union and vote National that it means all of them do.
        You say that this union is all about greed and getting as much as they can for themselves.

        To your first point- what about teachers who are on $90k+ (or even $75k+), are they automatically National voters or do you get to pick and choose who on highish pay votes where is convenient for your argument?
        Second point- I’d have to agree that this union is fueled by greed, once again I point to teachers unions where there seems very little in regard for childrens education, more for the teachers themselves- like in the last year or so when they expected 4% plus annual pay rises when the Govt was trying to keep spending under control and when many in the private sector were taking pay cuts to stay in work… Get a life.

        You make some valid points, stop being a troll as you’re better than that.

      • diabolos

        @kiljoy:disqus - with regard to teachers – yes i do believe many of them probably vote National.  I’ve sat in meetings etc with such people and have a fair idea of how they vote.

        The nats great strength is the closet vote.  Its a phenomenon that exists or the bloody numpties wouldnt be in Government now.

        Teachers are the biggest ass kissing money taking underperforming and overpaid group of so called civil servants in this country currently.  If more migrants could speak more intelligible english – they would be lining up at Teachers Training Colleges across the country.  

  • Anonymous

    I think diabolos has jumped the shark.

    • diabolos

      tried it – didnt work – but thanks for thinking of me

      • Anonymous

        I wish you made sense.

  • EX Navy Greg

    WO called them out and now we all know about the union bullshit.
    Final score : WO and common sense 1
                            Self serving unionists 0

  • Anonymous

    So much material…where to start?

    D, how many unionised workers work at POAL and how many can you be certain vote National?

    Surely, if they are die-hard National supporters, they wouldn’t be in a union where part of their dues get paid to Labour?

    Then again, now that you have proven beyond all doubt that there is an uncover secret National Party coven of people on $90K per annum who vote National but use the Union to get special privileges, is Labour going to refuse to take their tainted dirty money and force the union to expel them so they cannot hijack proceedings any further?

    How many people in a coven?

    Have Labour and the union movement lost all control, and, how many unions are now under the influence of National Party covens?

    What is the dollar value where someone stops being a worker and enters the Michael Fay worshipping sect? Why doesn’t this apply to politicians?

    How is it that some unionists can be cunt’s (your words) but you paint all people doing well for themselves as now wanting the best for NZ? Is it that once you reach an income of, say, $89,500, you moral and social compass gets de-magnetised and you automaticall become an asshole with no redeeming features or graces?

    D, you do realise Labour is totally fucked, don’t you? The have lost touch with their roots (well, all except Darren) and believe that they just have to educate the great unwashed and everything will be AOK.

    Guess what, they’re wrong. Labour has passed it’s used-by date. People are more educated, have access to more resources and more ideas than ever before. Just like the medieval churches, labour has lost their hold on their congregation. People now realise there is more to the story and being treated like mushrooms doesn’t get you far whereas hard work and ambition does.
     Sure, the churches are still around but they don’t have the power they once did, and that is where Labour has headed.

    Have a great evening.

    • diabolos

      My answer to you Dave Cavity – is yes on all counts. We completely agree.

      Labour is fucked – and so is National now only they dont realise it yet.

      I cant answer any of your statements with anything else but a resounding yes of agreement.

  • Anonymous

    as now wanting = as not wanting

    D, think of this. The Greens are the up-and-coming party of the left and are doing it by dancing on Labour’s corpse. Where is the upside for workers, employers and the countries economy when they pass Labour as the preferred second ranked party?

  • Anonymous

    And another wee gem D;
    how many of the VRWC let it be known that Sheared was their preferred choice of Labour leader?
    Who is now Labour leader?
    Did a National Party coven get it’s way again?
    What was it about Cunliffe that made the VRWC prefer Shearer?
    Or was there something about Shearer that the VRWC preferred over Cunliffe?

  • Cactus Kate

    Best harpoon yet to you Whale. Bringing the ports to a standstill and being named by a Union as the reason why. We haven’t even put any time and effort into this. Yet.

    • EX Navy Greg

      Agreed Kate , there is a whole lot of mileage in this one. Hey Kosh..” this is bad news for the unions” hehehe

  • Brian Smaller

    Sack the lot.  I would change careers for a taste of that action.

  • Paranormal

    Wasn’t Garry Parsloe’s mum on Open All Hours?

  • Bunswalla

    Diabolos, the great wind-up merchant, has got it completely wrong though. When your remuneration levels rise, there’s no trigger point that flicks a switch in your brain from “Thinking like a socialist” to “Thinking like a capitalist”. I assume you’ve had jobs and it’s not a stretch to imagine you’ve had pay rises, even if only inflation-adjusted (or more likely, chiselled out by your union reps with threats of strike action) and not merited by any particular achievement.No matter what you get paid, it never seems to be “enough” does it? Sure, the first couple of weeks or months are great, but any increase just seems to get absorbed into the system and it certainly doesn’t change the way you vote. As someone mentioned, these POAL scum imbibed the class struggle with their mother’s milk, and they take ever greater pleasure in chiselling out ever greater paychecks and bonuses, preferably without doing anything useful or productive to merit it. If there are two National voting union members (and there may well be more, after all at least half the population has an IQ grerater than 100), it’s almost certain they’ve voted that way for a long time and didn’t wake up the morning after their latest union-chiselled pay rise and go “Fuck me, 90 grand! I’d better vote National now.”

    The tosser is you.

    • diabolos

      Been self employed and been an employer of many staff Bunswalla.  had some very bad experiences with Unions too.

      Tossing is something all of us do Bunswalla – its the stuff of life.

      • Bunswalla

        Can’t argue with the points I made though can you?

    • diabolos

      Bunsy old chap – i actually have a problem trying to work out what your points are?

      Its one giant paragraph.  it was a matter of closing ones eyes and stabbing at a part of a sentence.

      There is a link between income zone and the way people vote.  There are exceptions to the rule i’m sure – but as a general rule of thumb its pretty right.

  • Lesley

    Wow – you really must be getting under their skin. The difference between strikes now and back in the old days – the power of the internet to expose the truth.

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