Wellington Local Notice to Members

Posted 16 Dec '04 under Wellington Local

New members Recommended

Members will be aware that the Local Executive committee interviewed 10 Applicants who wished to re join the Union.

From those interviews, 8 people were recommended by your Local Executive for membership. Subsequent to this, it was agreed to have a secret ballot so that members could endorse the committee’s recommendations.

The Fire-fighters recommended for acceptance are as follows.

Aaron Waterrus	John Fox
Danny Tafeamaalii	David Jowett
Andy Tuffin	Dean Stirling
Alan Bigwood	Bryan Wills

The ballot papers will be issued shortly and the committee asks that you consider their membership in light of their recommendation.

District Amalgamation

Members are advised that the amalgamation of Wellington South and North Districts has been approved by the Commission. Effective date for this is 1 January 2005. The Local Executive is formulating a working group to sort out the myriad of issues that this raises.

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.