Brackenridge Estate strike - Day 2

go wayne the rest of the world supports you

Kill the unionists!

Just another fun day in Babylon for some capitalists I guess. It's a pity that we have to strike and picket for fair pay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xiec27yF-Y

perhaps the car was not going 80km but it was going faster then a car should have been going in order to safely make that turn with people around the drive way. All that picketers were asking for wsa for drivers to take caution when they choose to drive through the gates.

So now the story from what we are led to believe from someone who was there is he was not doing 80kmh ? so what part of this whole story is acually true? I can immagine the only thing on the strikers minds was to try to block cars coming in and not to keep their children clear of the driveway but to stand in front of cars holding signs that they knew nothing about the meaning of them.

I think you're right, fat ziggy might have taken it too far with the personal comments, no need for it really.

no cars were blocked from going into Brackenridge during the 48 hours of there strike - there was no picketing across the gates at all. Some cars drove too fast through the gates where there were people either side. It was incredibly unsafe. Children were there with their parents - it was broad daylight. If you are not going to name yourself probably best you don't name other people.

Kia ora koutou. So why are people so gutless on this site eh? People seem willing to post all kinds of stupid offensive crap if they don't put their name to it.

Ok I was there too, perhaps he wasn't going 80kms but the point was he was going way too fast and wouldn't have been able to stop if he needed to. Anyway there is no excuse for being a scab and if the prick really needed the money then he could sell the fucking BMW that he was driving.

Good on the workers there for making a brave stand and I spent 5 years as a community support worker for $11-12.50 and hour so I know what its like

Dan Rae

IN regards too ......

by Anonymous
I think you're right, fat ziggy might have taken it too far with the personal comments, no need for it really.

Here you are saying Making personal comments and yet you have become a hypocrit Already on this site, So its Ok for you to call me Fat Ziggy But its not ok for me to call someone a scabby Bitch??? I Dont see the comment im making being Personal, I Think you are just Shallow who doesnt have the guts to put your name to your sad pathetic Comment

Also Some of the staff did drive excessivly fast thru the picketline, and some of the staff that were working Were also not professional as well, so Lets not point Fingers at each other but move on .

Ziggy

get your facts right, think management have to stay overnight. they have more brains than you lot have.I can,t see why you should get a pay rise you lot don,t seem to do much work in the houses, they were in a pretty dirty stateI think you must sit on your arse a fair bit of the time.

well said anonymous! The work that these workers do is incredibly difficult and worthy of far higher wages. I was proud to stand on the picket line with these guys - what a brave stand you are all taking for the need to get higher wages in the disability sector. Everyone's commitment was highlighted by the industrial action. When clients were driven home, or dropped off from home, the genuine concern for their clients was so obvious amongst these workers, it was humbling. Families can see this and that is why they supported the action.
It is extremely hard work out at Brackenridge and not work a lot of people could bring themselves to do it. Brackenridge workers have taken a stand - hopefully their brothers and sisters working in the sector will follow their inspiring lead.

Whilst being a support worker at Brackenridge some support workers did work extremely hard. Others on the other hand did sit on there arses most of the day smoking and drinking coffee, or watching T.V. What other job can you go to work eat when ever you like have coffee and smoke breaks whenever. Fat Ziggy wasn't fat when he first started working at Brackenridge.

I believe it is hard work at times,and it can be unpleasant, but also how many clients are there during the day. I have heard most of them are away at school or work etc. Why don't you clean then. Sally Jackson

I've heard that union members are after a pay rise of at least 10%, maybe more than that. People know the MOH has frozen funds. Wouldn't it be a good idea to go straight to the MOH with a petetion from thousands of disability sector workers demanding better wages. There are residential providers all over the country and then there are the workers at day programmes. It's election year isn't it? There seems to be lots of passionate people out there. Why don't a couple of you get together and start something that could really make a difference and raise the value of the workers in this difficult field.

It's a trueism that a society can be judged by the way it treats it's most vunerable members. And that most certainly includes the intellectually disabled. It's not surprising that workers at Brackenridge Estate do not recieve overtime rates and the estate has staff shortages. I'm betting they're not earning much more than minimum wage either, and it's virtually impossible to live on minimum wages as an adult alone let alone if you have anyone else, like children, to support. I don't understand the offensive name calling, and opposition to what these workers are trying to achieve, in the comments above. Don't you all think people doing this kind of shitty (sometimes literally), hard, repetitive and caring work deserve a decent wage and decent working conditions? Or do you think they only deserve to struggle to get by doing this work and deserve no respect?

Kia ora people!
Boy it's fun reading all these comments! Makes you glad you're not working in the office, eh?
I think both sides have fair arguments, initially pointing out problems on both sides of the bar.
I love my job at Brackenridge Estate, but oh my god, the office have no respect for the Support workers and RN's(the one's that actually do work in the houses, and not sit on their backsides in the office, and coming up with the next petty comeback ammo for this strike). And that was before the strike even happened! The office staff really need to consider respect towards us house staff, then maybe we'll start respecting them!
The strike could have gone a little bit better. Yes there were several name callings from the picket-line, but the head-honcho himself, calling a certain client "An animal"? AND he denied it to the press? AND a certain second in command overheard all of this, from half-way down the estate, ergo backing PC all the way? Sorry CHeryl, but your hearing's not that great! And being a member of the picket makes you a liar, right? I smell vocal bull-shit, Pete! Come on! How are we supposed to trust you, if you're going to come out with "It wasn't me!"?
And as for the kids being there, I agree that they their parents should not have brought them along! BUT saying that, if Wayne almost hit them with his car, it still could have been an adult. No excuse either way!
By the way, well done office staff for placing some comments on this page! Shame about the lack of respect towards house staff!

Kia ora people!
Boy it's fun reading all these comments! Makes you glad you're not working in the office, eh?
I think both sides have fair arguments, initially pointing out problems on both sides of the bar.
I love my job at Brackenridge Estate, but oh my god, the office have no respect for the Support workers and RN's(the one's that actually do work in the houses, and not sit on their backsides in the office, and coming up with the next petty comeback ammo for this strike). And that was before the strike even happened! The office staff really need to consider respect towards us house staff, then maybe we'll start respecting them!
The strike could have gone a little bit better. Yes there were several name callings from the picket-line, but the head-honcho himself, calling a certain client "An animal"? AND he denied it to the press? AND a certain second in command overheard all of this, from half-way down the estate, ergo backing PC all the way? Sorry CHeryl, but your hearing's not that great! And being a member of the picket makes you a liar, right? I smell vocal bull-shit, Pete! Come on! How are we supposed to trust you, if you're going to come out with "It wasn't me!"?
And as for the kids being there, I agree that they their parents should not have brought them along! BUT saying that, if Wayne almost hit them with his car, it still could have been an adult. No excuse either way!
By the way, well done office staff for placing some comments on this page! Shame about the lack of respect towards house staff!

The comment about 'think you must sit on your arse a fair bit of the time', obviously came from someone in the office. They're sitting down in that office most of the time, and do they clean their verbal shit off the walls? I think not!

Man, I'd love to flick through Brackenridge's financial books! All those sandwiches and savories from the swamp everytime they have their little meetings in Maddy park, must be enough to feed the whole of a 3rd world country for a year!

What can be worse than having to work for the management at Brackenridge Estate? Being the management of Brackenridge Estate!

Group of us looking for new jobs, eh.
Not gonna win against the scabs!

actually i was a volunteer not an office worker, but i think you all need to grow up.

Ziggy you gosup to much, you need to keep your mouth shut.
We work hard, we do everything a normal house would need doing, Cleaning, cooking/baking, washing, cleaning up body fluids: shit, urine, sick. Half of chch would say yuk "why do that has a job". because we care for these people and we want them to have a better life than we do.

We want respect from management, respect from the community.

No more childish behaviour from management, a HELLO when we walk though the door would be nice instead of a grunt what do you want!!
ITS TIME TO MOVE ON MANAGEMENT STOP PUNISHING THE SUPPORT WORKERS. YOU WERE US ONCE IN 2006.

Grow the fuck up, you bunch of morons,

if all of you who are making comments don't like working at brackenridge why don't you leave if lifes so much better else where.You sound like little kids whining.

I have a son at Brackenridge Estate, and I completely understand what the staff are going through. There are a couple of office staff that I have dealt with over a matter of 3 years, that I really don't understand why they've been put there!? They are rude, have a lack of communication, and I certainly wouldn't trust them to look after my son.
Go support workers! Go away Peter Campbell!