September 12, 2006

The Mari­time Uni­on of New Zea­l­and has boos­ted its sup­port of locked out dis­tri­bu­tion work­ers at Pro­gress­ive Enter­prises with uni­on mem­bers to con­trib­ute one hours wages per week until the dis­pute is settled.

Mari­time Uni­on Act­ing Gen­er­al Sec­ret­ary Terry Ryan says the res­ol­u­tion was passed unan­im­ously on a nation­al con­fer­ence call of all ports today.

“The Mari­time Uni­on is 100% com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing the locked out work­ers at Pro­gress­ive using all fin­an­cial, indus­tri­al and polit­ic­al meth­ods open to us.”