Is this why Len won’t back his board?

You're the Mayor of Auckland and one of your largest commercial facilities in paralysed with industrial action. Even worse, it is a facility owned by your Council.

Over several weeks you have seen Auckland's economy get battered after first Maersk and now announce they are abandoning Auckland for and Napier, due to the militant industrial action taken by the .

So it should be a no-brainer to come out publicly and lean on the Maritime Union to stop driving businesses away from Auckland. mean ever Wellington's stood up for the wellington creative industries when a militant union looked set to destroy them.

So why has Len been so silent and non-commital? It didn't make sense.

Well it didn't, until I read at Whale Oil that the Maritime Union was one of Len's donors. They also donated to Mike Lee.

I guess that was one of their better investments.

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