Day: 12 January 2006

Maritime Union members will refuse to work whaling ships

The Mar­itime Union says its mem­bers will refuse to work with any Japan­ese ship involved in whal­ing that vis­its a New Zealand port.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says the Union sup­ports the two envi­ron­men­tal groups Green­peace and Sea Shep­herd in their attempts to end Japan­ese whal­ing in the South­ern Ocean.

Mr Han­son says the esca­lat­ing sit­u­a­tion increased the poten­tial for Japan­ese ships and planes involved in the whal­ing oper­a­tion to vis­it New Zealand.