Day: 23 June 2009

Fisheries Minister throwing New Zealand jobs to the sharks

The Mar­itime Union has slammed com­ments by Fish­eries Min­is­ter Phil Heat­ley about employ­ment in New Zealand’s fish­ing indus­try, and say they make a bad joke out of the Gov­ern­men­t’s com­mit­ment to pro­tect jobs.
Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says Mr Heat­ley has pub­licly admit­ted that New Zealand jobs are not a pri­or­i­ty in the New Zealand fish­ing indus­try.