Day: 30 May 2006

Maritime Union supports hunger strike by Ukrainian crew

The Mar­itime Union says a hunger strike by strik­ing Ukrain­ian crew mem­bers in Lyt­tel­ton is a “symp­tom of the dis­ease of exploita­tion in the fish­ing indus­try.”

Four crew mem­bers of the eight crew remain­ing aboard the fish­ing ves­sel “Malakhov Kur­gan” are lock­ing them­selves in a cab­in and are going on an indef­i­nite hunger strike.

They are protest­ing about not being paid the wages that are owed to them under New Zealand law.