Day: 16 March 2006

Unions get result for Indonesian crew

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand and Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion (ITF) have obtained back­pay for a group of Indone­sian fish­er­men who jumped ship last week.

The nine Indone­sian crew mem­bers left the fish­ing trawler Mar­inui in Dunedin on Fri­day 10 March.

The crew mem­bers were sent to Christchurch where they were inter­viewed by Mar­itime Union offi­cials, and then trav­elled to Auck­land Inter­na­tion­al Air­port today where they were met by union offi­cials rep­re­sent­ing the ITF.