{"id":319311,"date":"2017-07-28T23:03:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T22:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-zealand-job-cuts-planned-for-auckland-rail-services\/"},"modified":"2017-07-28T23:03:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T22:03:13","slug":"new-zealand-job-cuts-planned-for-auckland-rail-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-zealand-job-cuts-planned-for-auckland-rail-services\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: Job cuts planned for Auckland rail services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>New Zealand: Job cuts planned for Auckland rail services<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Sam Price<br \/>\n    <br \/>28 July 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Up to 300 Auckland rail workers face losing their jobs in a restructure of train services in New Zealand\u2019s largest city. They include at least 160 on-board train managers, who could be axed in favour of 18 officers who will monitor automated electronic ticket gates, the Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) told Newstalk ZB on June 29.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland Transport (AT) is still negotiating the plan with the trade union and private contractor Transdev. AT refused to confirm the job cuts but told Newstalk ZB \u201csome services could operate just with a driver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Land Transport Amendment Bill, expected to pass parliament next month with support from Labour and the Greens, will give officers at ticket gates more legal powers, including to issue penalty notices to fare evaders.<\/p>\n<p>Councils throughout the country are enforcing the National Party government\u2019s 2013 \u201cpublic transport operating model\u201d to increase profits and promote privatisation to slash costs at the expense of workers\u2019 wages, jobs and conditions. This is in line with similar assaults on transport workers internationally. Earlier this month, rail workers across Britain struck against the imposition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/07\/15\/rail-j15.html\">Driver Only Operated trains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement on June 30 <strong>,<\/strong> AT spokesman Brendon Main claimed the proposed changes would \u201cmake the trip safer.\u201d The removal of onboard staff will, in fact, make train journeys less safe. The plans are clearly intended to reduce spending and boost profits.<\/p>\n<p>Transdev, a French-based multinational corporation, reported global revenues of \u20ac6.7 billion ($NZ10.5 billion) in 2016, largely achieved through attacks on its workforce. Transdev and its parent company Veolia cut 140 bus drivers\u2019 jobs&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/07\/28\/aktr-j28.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 New Zealand: Job cuts planned for Auckland rail services By Sam Price 28 July 2017 Up to 300 Auckland rail workers face losing their jobs in a restructure of train services in New Zealand\u2019s largest city. They include at least 160 on-board train managers, who could be axed in favour of 18 officers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}