March 16, 2006

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.