Day: 25 October 2006

International maritime unions gather in Wellington

Mar­itime unions from around the Pacif­ic are rep­re­sent­ed in Welling­ton this week for the sec­ond three-year­ly con­fer­ence of the Mar­itime Union of New Zealand.
The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has wel­comed del­e­ga­tions from the All Japan Dock­ers Union, the Inter­na­tion­al Long­shore and Ware­house Union (ILWU) from the west coast of North Amer­i­ca, and the Mar­itime Union of Aus­tralia, who have made pre­sen­ta­tions at the con­fer­ence on indus­tri­al and polit­i­cal issues.
Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says sev­er­al key themes have emerged from the Con­fer­ence.