[2025] NZEmpC 167 Lyttelton Port Company Ltd v Maritime Union of New Zealand and Anor [pdf, 330 KB]
...and do expire and are renegotiated. They are the product of compromise and opportunism.21 [52] Unlike arms’ length business contracts, and consistent with the theme of the Act, collective agreements are relational;22 they involve people and human interactions (not the economic exchange of money for goods) and occur within the framework of multi-faceted obligations, both statutory (such as mutual obligations of good faith) and common law (such as the obligation of fidelity and fai...