tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post6928546172509657206..comments2024-03-19T15:05:56.959+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Ropes of Sand: Honouring The Memory Of Peter Conway - Trade Unionist.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-16005844749093051522015-06-14T18:08:29.343+12:002015-06-14T18:08:29.343+12:00I met another traveller today at an airport and we...I met another traveller today at an airport and we talked briefly. She had been employed in the IRD for 42 years, had seniority, respect. Then computerisation came, and she worked alongside a technician who utilised all her knowledge, after which she was sacked. All those with their historical knowledge and experience went. Lately she has been a bit lonely but has taken up indoor bowls and was enthusiastic about the friendly people and the game. So keep that in mind for the possible bleak future. <br /><br />There have been repeat stories of such callous behaviour to workers, the change agents for automation depleting the work force of seniors, the diminishing work security, salary, conditions and respect for seniority. When multiplied by 100,000s, it is depressing, an ebb tide carrying away dreams of a good future, and a dedicated union worker's heart could break.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-42033894702581358502015-06-13T21:57:10.075+12:002015-06-13T21:57:10.075+12:00Hear, hear.Hear, hear.Saarbonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-64286432698260139992015-06-13T14:30:13.926+12:002015-06-13T14:30:13.926+12:00Remembering Peter so fondly. I was Peters pa when...Remembering Peter so fondly. I was Peters pa when he was retail secretary at the national distribution union, late 80s, early 90s, typing up his long hand, huge amounts of work. Led me to organizing. He and Odette Shaw played united we stand divided we fall at our wedding in 1988. Our children went to the same daycares, and Liz is a wonderful woman. This has touched many of my friends and family who met Peter over the years. In solidarity. All my love. He will be sadly missed.jo taylor-brockienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-31798091097564074152015-06-11T14:08:26.607+12:002015-06-11T14:08:26.607+12:00http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2015/06/rip_peter_conway...http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2015/06/rip_peter_conway.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-68265669012203977232015-06-11T13:36:16.298+12:002015-06-11T13:36:16.298+12:00Chris...Please replace my earlier offering with th...Chris...Please replace my earlier offering with this one... earlier had some typo errors. Thanks. Alan Rhodes.<br /><br />On the bloody nail!<br /><br />In small town NZ with its small town media the highest form of heroism will be found in the mud of a rugby field rather than in the contributions of a John Campbell, or Lucretia Seales.<br /><br />Peter Conway, with his intelligence, contribution, and consistent vision and hope for a better and fairer world, could never compete with any 'rugby great' in our poodling, shallow media. Not, one suspects, would he ever have wished to.<br /><br />Keeping that flag of mission flying in the crass and mindless society we have created would be the Genesis of depression for anyone in small town NZ where real people are sportspeople and royals served up by a shallow media dedicated to brainwashing titillation rather than investigation or balance.<br /><br />Venceremos Pete!<br /><br />Alan RhodesAlanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158473327999595285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-81892665036162989692015-06-11T11:19:38.619+12:002015-06-11T11:19:38.619+12:00Hes getting a lot of good press from politicos fro...Hes getting a lot of good press from politicos from both sides of the spectrum, there's no doubt hes well liked and respected by those who knew him. He was a backroom operator for the unions and given the low levels of unionization and the nature of the man doing work in the shadows its hardly surprising he got less inches than celebrities like Collins. I'm doubting Conway wanted the limelight anyway. We are a lesser place without folk like him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com