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# This Union Really Shows That Some Unions Are Scumbags
- URL: https://goodoil.news/this-union-really-shows-that-some-unions-are-scumbags/
- Published: 2020-03-11T21:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-03-26T20:58:13.000Z
- Author: Xavier Theodore Reginald Ordinary
- Tags: COVID-19, Featured, General, Health, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

It is hard not to come to the conclusion that the Apex Union are not only scumbags but led by scumbags too. [A Newspaper reports](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c%5Fid=280&objectid=12315170&ref=goodoil.news):

> Director-General of Health **Ashley Bloomfield** says it’s “disappointing” that a laboratory workers’ union is using the coronavirus outbreak as leverage in planned strike action.  
>  
> But a senior Apex spokesman denies his union is using the outbreak as leverage and the timing was “just a coincidence”.

I suppose it could be a coincidence. It may also be a coincidence that one of the union bosses has a nasty habit of using stand-over tactics like this in order to get his own way. It may also be a coincidence that he thinks nothing of repeatedly breaching people’s privacy in order to score petty points. It may also be a coincidence that the Ombudsmen have forced him to be a lot more forthcoming with OIA requests that he has deliberately dragged the chain on?

> Apex, which represents DHB Medical Laboratory Workers and **NZ Blood Service** employees across New Zealand, announced plans to strike this Friday.  
>  
> The industrial action is in support of achieving a fair offer to settle their multi-employer collective agreement (MECA).  
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> Apex released a statement at 1pm this afternoon – the same time as Bloomfield’s daily Covid-19 updates.  
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> Senior Apex spokesman **David Munro** said the industrial action was on top of ongoing partial strikes, which will be running until May.  
>  
> NZ Herald

What a bunch of scumbags. The government is asking businesses to think about what they can do to assist with the COVID-19 virus outbreak that threatens to nobble our economy, not to mention likely infect 50% of the population, and all these scumbags can do is try to line their own pockets.

Unions and Employers are required to negotiate in good faith. **David Munro**‘s actions appear to be the antithesis of good faith.

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