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It's taken about 100 days each to get 200 foreign specialists into NZ and onto the site of the $4.5 billion City Rail Link.

"Watercare is a very big company, it has a big impact on Auckland and New Zealand so I don't know why they didn't advocate a lot harder to get them in," Northern Amalgamated Workers Union secretary Maurice Davis says. "If the Wiggles can get in, why can't these TBM operators get in." Davis says with one council project competing with another, it's a bidding war for staff and there are big offers. "It's rumours [how much more they're offering to pay], but it's something between $20,000 to $100,000." But he says that is small change compared to the cost of the machine, which is worth tens of mi...

Two major Auckland Council projects in employment tug-of-war as shortage of specialist staff causes problems Newshub 5/02/2021 Melissa Chan-Green © Newshub. Watch: Auckland's Central Rail Link and a major Watercare project are in an employment tug-of-war as a shortage of specialist staff causes problems. An unusual employment tug-of-war has developed between two of Auckland's major building projects. The Central Rail Link and a major Waterare project both need the same set of skilled workers, but the issue is there's only enough staff in the country for one of the tunnels...

Turning around rising carbon emissions is the biggest challenge facing Auckland’s political leadership, and it cannot take second place to Covid-related council financial housekeeping. The proposed budget climate programme is worthy but not transformational. Councillors have already opted for the smaller of two climate budget proposals, going for one which an options report said will “moderately accelerate climate action”. They voted by a majority against a plan that would have doubled the reduction of carbon emissions – at albeit small levels – for the additional cost of 44 cen...

Why Auckland's beaches are unswimmable every time it rains, and what's being done to turn it around 9 Jan, 2021 06:02 AM 8 minutes to read Home and hosed: Auckland water rules relaxed just in time for summer. Video / Will Trafford Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz Ngarimu Blair has never swum in the waters of Ōkahu Bay, the ancestral waters of his hapū, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei. It's not because he doesn't want to, but because of an intergenerational fear of getting violently ill. Blair grew up with stories like that of his great grandfather wh...