Day: 31 May 2007

Maritime Union of New Zealand says it will stop work on blacklisted ship in Australian dispute

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand says it will stop work on the ship involved in the Port Kem­bla water­front dis­pute in Aus­tralia if it comes to New Zealand.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says if the MV Capo Noli enters any port in New Zealand, the dis­pute in Port Kem­bla will be imme­di­ate­ly extend­ed to New Zealand.

The Union has offered its full sup­port to the Mar­itime Union of Aus­tralia, who are fight­ing an attempt by multi­na­tion­al ship­ping cor­po­ra­tion CSL to make Third World crews do water­front work in Port Kem­bla in New South Wales.