Black Watch Members Affected by Restructure

Posted 11 Nov '11 under National

Further to Newsletter 9 November 2011.

After discussion between the Union (Peter Hallet, Peter Nicolle and Derek Best) and the Employer (Janine Hearn), for V.S.O’s and Trainers, the cut off date for final decisions on acceptance of offered positions has been extended out to 30 November.

The 2 Weeks until 30 Nov. will be used for you to discuss with your Manager to attempt to pin down a certainty around specific Hours of Work.

The discussion indicated little or no material change for F.S.O’s, however the Union will be provided full details as per responses receive by the Employer, as to how changes will affect individual Members early next week and further advice will be provided after that.

Near Disaster on the North Shore

25 Apr

Members will no doubt be aware of the major 5th Alarm fire that broke out last night on the North Shore. This fire had widespread impacts to people across Tamaki Makaurau with several Emergency Alerts having to be made. Additionally, our thoughts go out the local community, including the owner, tenants, and staff of the businesses impacted.

Major Fire Causes Widespread Disruption to Auckland Fleet

7 Mar

Members will no doubt be aware of Wednesday's major fire in a scrapyard in Papakura. Whilst the cause of this fire is still under investigation what is known is that the impacts of it were widespread right across Auckland.

Return to Work Duties

23 Feb

We have been told that staff wanting to do Return to Work Duties will have to do them at District HQ and they do not intend to reimburse your travel costs, “you are getting an enhanced pay and you can fund your own travel”. We have since got an agreement that the travel distance reimbursement will be paid for travel to District HQ.