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22-Oct-07 11:10 [Asia Pacific]
New docks pay strike in Auckland Auckland port workers are to stage a fifth strike in their pay dispute, which will be timed to coincide with New Zealand's Labour Day.
The move will be a symbolic one, lasting three hours and 25 minutes to mark the percentage of the pay offer from the port authority.
Workers have rejected the offer and want a rise between 4.5 and 4.9 per cent.
The dispute over pay and employee reward issues has seen the port authority argue that the demands of the dockers would increase labour costs by ten per cent, the New Zealand Herald reports.
In a statement, the port authority said: "We do not expect any significant delays to cargo operations and every effort will be made to minimise any delays at the road services."
Labour Day, which is celebrated on the 28th of October in New Zealand, commemorates the establishment of a right to an eight hour working day following a campaign by carpenter Samuel Parnell in 1840.
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