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Day: 7 May 2009

Striking cabin crew get support: NZPA

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand today voiced sup­port for strik­ing Air New Zealand cab­in crew.

The 240 crew employed by Air NZ sub­sidiary Zeal walked off the job today for four days after months of fruit­less nego­ti­a­tions over pay par­i­ty with staff employed direct­ly by the air­line.

Full sto­ry here.

Maritime workers back locked out flight attendants

Maritime Union supports flight attendant picket in Wellington

The Mar­itime Union is back­ing locked out flight atten­dants employed by Air New Zealand sub­sidiary Zeal 320.

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says water­front work­ers and sea­far­ers sup­port­ed protests by locked out work­ers in Auck­land and Welling­ton today.

“The Mar­itime Union will give full and active sup­port to our fel­low trans­port work­ers and their union the EPMU in this dis­pute.”