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August 21, 2009

Maritime Union calling for international support for Telecom engineers

The Mari­time Uni­on has added its weight to the struggle of Tele­com lines engin­eers fight­ing to pro­tect their jobs.

Mari­time Uni­on of New Zea­l­and Gen­er­al Sec­ret­ary Tre­vor Han­son says mari­time work­ers will be sup­port­ing the Tele­com lines engin­eers, who are mem­bers of the EPMU, in their battle against con­tract­ing out.

He says a spe­cial nation­al exec­ut­ive meet­ing of the Mari­time Uni­on has been called for Monday, which will be fol­lowed by com­mu­nic­a­tions with the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers Fed­er­a­tion based in Lon­don and its New Zea­l­and uni­on affil­i­ates, as well as Aus­trali­an mari­time uni­ons.

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Maritime Union highlights negative effects of Fonterra port pull out

The Mari­time Uni­on says region­al ports have been hit hard because of a decision by Fonterra to rail goods to dis­tant ports.

Mari­time Uni­on Gen­er­al Sec­ret­ary Tre­vor Han­son says the moves have already led to notices of major redund­an­cies in the port of Timaru, great­er cas­u­al­iz­a­tion of the work­force, and was threat­en­ing the viab­il­ity of some ports.

“This issue can­not be dealt with by ports con­tinu­ing to com­pete each oth­er into the ground. It must be addressed by nation­al co-ordin­a­tion of our trans­port sys­tem, not the waste­ful, insec­ure and chaot­ic mess we have at the moment.”

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